Archaic England / An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

Given the material, spelling errors were rarely corrected. Those in the table below seemed suspicious given other instances of the same word. Some punctuation errors have been silently corrected to avoid confusion or for consistency.

A number of words appear both hyphenated and unhyphenated. If a word was found hyphenated on an end-of-line, the most frequent version was followed.

Figures 235, 236, 237 were misnumbered as 335, 336, 337 respectively. These have been corrected.

William Carew Hazlitt’s work “Faiths and Folklore” is also cited as “Faith and Folklore”. The variant is retained.

A number of footnoted quotations were missing either opening or closing quote marks. Where possible, these have been confirmed in the referenced sources and placed properly; otherwise, they are simply noted.

The name ‘Akerman’ appears twice with an extraneous ‘n’, which has been removed.

Corrections and Comments

Page	Correction	Note
16	wolves, beavers, and bisons.[”]	Provided closing quote.
62	as English itself.[”]	Provided closing quote.
68n	mountain nor a flower[.]”	Missing period.
	the old, famil[i]ar, fanciful	Added ‘i’
70	music and dancing[,] stories,	Missing comma.
77	the old, famil[i]ar, fanciful	Added ‘i’.
100	The[y] enter’d each a bath	‘y’ missing, but space present.
105	spindl[l]e whorls	Likely redundant ‘l’.
109n	[‘]the goodman’s croft’	Leading ‘ restored.
122	Centuries ago, Diodorus of Sicily...	The punctuation of this passage is confused by citations within citations, with some paraphrasing. It is left as printed.
127	A[yr/ry]an	Corrected.
134	signifies _all_[/,] Pan	Stop/comma error.
148	festivit[i]es	Missing ‘i’ provided.
159	gene[e]sis	Redundant ‘e’ across page break removed.
163	run[n]ing	Added ‘n’ missing on line break hyphenation.
176	metemphsychosis	sic
192	black, or reddish.[”]	Added missing closing ”.
193	‘slayer of Belleros’”	Nested quotation marks corrected.
216	[h/l]and of the Rising Sun	Likely typo
258	fruit[]fulness	sic
267	Figs. 95 to 102.—British. Nos.[ ] to [] from Akerman. Nos.[ ]to [ ] from Evans.]	The range of images from Akerman & Evans are missing.
299	and pilgrims.[”]	Added missing quote.
314	“inscribed rock,[’/”]	Corrected.
335	[b/B]asque for head	Corrected for consistency.
385	the root of the bracken”	Closing quote missing.
386	plura[l]	Added missing ‘l’.
386n	Byways in British ArchÆology, 3[7]5-7.	Missing ‘7’ provided and confirmed in source.
421	floundering from F[l]ounders Field	Corrected to match prior instances.
428	a corruption of Co[n]vent Garden	The intent seems to have been ‘Convent’ here.
431	the scythes of Boudicca[’]s	Probably possessive, but left as in the text.
432	lewe[’]	Removed incorrect apostrophe.
438	Arianrod/Arianrhod	Alternate spellings/pronunciation.
449	the hippodrome[,/.]	Comma/stop error corrected.
472	and ever[]where our hope	sic.
479	classica[l]	Provided missing ‘l’.
522	but “the fact remains	Opening of quotation from Gomme missing.
555n	Cyclops Christiani[a/u]s	Changed to conform to other instances.
612	Will[-]o-the-wisps	Added ‘-’ to conform.
635	British [(]Channel [(]Islands)	Parenthesis misplaced, appears elsewhere as(Channel Islands).
649	chieft[ia/ai]nship	Corrected.
665	about their public affairs["].	sic_. The opening quote mark for this citation could not be located.
674	neigh[b]ours	Added missing ‘b’.
679	one curly-headed virgin.”	Likely close of quoted passage.
703	[“]the four epochs	Missing quotation mark provided.
706	the words [“/‘]God leadeth[’”;]".	Corrected nested quotes.
736	watermen [t]outing	Likely typo: added ‘t’.
754	mea[n]t	Typo: added ‘n’.
779	Budd[h]ist Monasteries	Added ‘h’ to conform.
819	of the Cornish Sancreed.[978]	The second footnote on the page has no anchor in the text. One has been added, arbitrarily.
819n	_The Thorn Tree_, p. 40[)].	Closed open ‘(’.
823	Cyclops, p. 1[3]7.	May be p. 187.
859	adscriptigleboe/adscripti glebÆ	The author misquotes R.G. Latham. The spelling is retained.

Index

There were a number of anomalies in the Index, which have been corrected or completed to make the text useful. Punctuation has been made regular. Some entries had no page references at all, and no attempt was made to provide them.

878	Antiquity of European habitation[]	sic: Page reference missing
881	— British, 24[0]	3rd digit missing, but this begins a description of the topic.
	coin, [8/3]97	Corrected page reference to ‘397’.
	Co[n/o]knoe, 197	Corrected typo.
	Co[n/o]k’s Kitchen Mine, 222	Corrected typo.
	Cunbaria, 330	The entry is correct; p. 330, however, is misnumbered as 300.
	fainites! / fainits!	The word is spelled both ways in the text, but the index entries reverse the references. They have been switched here.
	fecu[u/n]d	Corrected flipped ‘n’
884	Five, 238, 437, [513], 503, 689	No reference to ‘five’ on p. 513 (out of order)
	Grimm’s Law, [51], 60	‘51’ missing, but the Law is defined there.
885	Herculaneum and Pompei[i, 19]	Final ‘i’ and page number missing. Supplied by a search.
886	— coins, 247, 254, 265, 297, 2[3/8]1, 386	Typo: there are Iberian coins on p. 281. Mis-ordering is retained.
888	[Morin, 275 / Morni, 175]	This entry is corrupted in the text
	The Mysteries, [56]	The text had no page reference. ‘56’ was added as the only plausible reference.
890	Population density, [ ]	sic: Page reference missing.
893	Trefoil, 286	The duplicate entry referring to p. 286 seems an error. There is an image there which which includes a shamrock but there is no mention in the text. The entry is retained.

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