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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 795

An illustration from Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions, 1919, leaf 795
mother. ^ Fig. 463, evidently representative of the Great terrestrialMother holding in her hand a simple horn, the fore-runnerof the later cornu copia or horn of abundance, is theouthne sketch of a rock-carved statue, 2 feet in height, ^ Spence, L., Myths of Mexico and Peru, p. 29.8. 774 AECHAIC… … p^ and is the only yet discovered statue of any size executedby the so-called Reindeer men ; in the Chislehurst caves XIV.] DOWN UNDEil 775 have been discovered the deer horn picks of the primevalmen who apparently first made them. The Kentish Dene hole is never an aimless quarrymg ;on the contrary…

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