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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 393

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Fig. 220.—From Histo^-y of Paganism in Caledonia. (Wise, T. A.). called butterfly design of which three typical examples arehere illustrated. What it seems to represent is Browen orthe Brows, but it is also an excellent bird, butterfiv, or 382 ARCHAIC ENGLAND [chap. papillon: or as we speak… … Frri. 221.—The Creator, under the Form of Jesus Christ, ItaHau Minia-ture of the close of the XII. Cent. From Christian Tcovogrrqjhy(Didron). 1)6 designated the brains. ]3oth Canon Greenwell and SirArthur Evans have drawn attention to similar representa-tions of the human face on early objects from…

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