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 496
ain of pearls is proceeding Irom the mouth of thelittle figure which appears on some of the Channel Islandcoins, vide the Drucca example herewith : students offairy-tale are familiar with the story of a Maid out of whosemouth, whensoer she opened it fell jewels, and that thisfairy Maid was Eeason… … Figs. 274 to -276.—British. From EvaDS, aud from Baithelemy. a serpent (?) and it is quite likely that the serpent orsymbol of Wisdom was intended by the artist. There isno question about the serpents in the Tyrian coin hereillustrated, where on either side of the Maiden they arerepresented with…
Archaeology · England -- Antiquities
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