[350] Bellot, H. H. L., The Temple, p. 12.
[351] That there is nothing far-fetched in this possibility is proved by a Vedic Hymn circa 2500 B.C.: “Enter, O lifeless one, the mother earth, the widespread earth, soft as a maiden in her arms rest free from sin. Let now the earth gently close around you even as a mother gently wraps her infant child in soft robes. Let now the fathers keep safe thy resting-place, and let Yama, the first mortal who passed the portals of Death, prepare thee for a new abiding place.”
[352] Near Land’s End is Bartinny or Pertinny, which is understood to have meant Hill of the Fire.
[353] At Bradfield is a British camp on Barley Hill. Notable earthwork abris exist at Brayford, Boringdon Camp, “Old Barrow,” Parracombe, and Prestonbury in Devonshire: at Buriton, and Bury Hill in Hampshire: at Breedon Hill, Burrough-on-the-hill, and Bury Camp in Leicestershire: at Borough Hill in Northamptonshire: at Burrow Wood, Bury Ditches, Bury Walls, and Caerbre in Shropshire: at Carn Brea in Cornwall: at Bourton, and Bury Castle, in Somerset: at Barmoor in Warwickshire: at Barbury, Bury Camp, and Bury Hill in Wiltshire: at Berrow in Worcestershire. Earthworks are also to be found on Brow downs, Bray downs, Bray woods, and Bury woods in various directions.
[354] F. M., p. 464.
[355] “Camps of indubitably British date, Saxon, and Norman entrenchments, to say nothing of minor matters such as dykes and mounds and so-called amphitheatres, all are accredited to a people who very probably had nothing at all to do with many of them.”—Allcroft, A. Hadrian, Earthwork of England, p. 289.
[356] The Bull’s head will have been noted on the buckler of Britannia, ante, [p. 120].
[357] Bohn’s Library, p. 114.
[358] Stone, J. Harris, England’s Riviera.
[359] Abelson, J., Jewish Mysticism, p. 31.