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 865
Numbers which was highly venerated by the Druids.^Six columbas centring in the womb of the Virgin Marywere illustrated on page 790, and it will probably provethat columha meant holy womb, just as culver seeminglymeant holy ovary. The sixfold marigold or wheel was used not infrequentlyas an emblem… … Figs. 486 to 491.—Paper-marked Mediaeval Emblems, Showing the Combination ofSerpent, Circle, and Six Lobes, From Les Filigraiies (Briquet, C. M.). CONCLUSIONS 837
Archaeology · England -- Antiquities
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