Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)
Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 347
Norman entrenchments,to say nothing of minor matters such as dykes and mounds and so-called 336 AECHAIC ENGLAND [chap. of two circles within a greater one, and at the head of theavenue facing due east it will be noticed that Aubrey, theseventeenth-century antiquary, records twin barrows situ-ated… … Fig. 177.—Avebury restored. Cove. There is no known etymology for Brisons, but ithas been suggested that these remarkable burgs were onceused as prisons: probably they were, for the stocks werefrequently placed at the church door, and without doubtthe ancient holy places served on necessity as…
Archaeology · England -- Antiquities
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