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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 440

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Fig. 25G.—From Tlie Ijcgcndary Lore of tlie Holy Wclla of England(Hope, R. C). but v^as from time immemorial a grove or garden of GoodCoven. The Maiden Lane here situated probably derivedits title from a sign or tablet of the Maiden similar to theCoventina pictures, and it is not improbable that… … an earthwork abri known seemingly as Givendale/ and onHambleton Hill in this neighbourhood used to be a White 1 Allcroft, A. Hadriau, Earthwork of England, \\ 462. 430 ARCHAIC ENGLAND [CHAP. Horse carved on the down side.^ The primal Coventryswere not improbably a tribal oak or other sacred tree,…

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