[8]. The Armenians still keep the Nativity on the 6th of January.
[9]. The subject is fully dealt with by Neander; Church History (Bohn’s ed.), vol. ii., pp. 419-48.
[10]. He would be led so to argue by reflecting that in the Church’s Kalendar Ascension and Pentecost are similarly related to the Paschal Feast and Annunciation to Christmas.
[11]. A still earlier age, the eolithic, which in Sussex has supplied my school contemporary, Dr. A. Smith Woodward of the British Museum, with what he believes to be a link between man and his pre-human ancestor is not represented in Cornwall.
[12]. Geology of the Land’s End District, pp. 79-80.
[13]. “Le prétendu caractère phallique de quelques-uns de ces monuments n’est qu’une conjecture chimérique qui a permis à certains esprits imaginatifs de se donner carrière.” Déchelette, Manuel d’Archéologie, I, 431, n. 2.
[14]. W. C. Borlase, Nænia Cornubiæ, p. 99:
“Wishing to put beyond dispute the origin and purpose of some few at least of these monoliths, and to ascertain if any were indeed sepulchral, the author ... examined the ground round some half-dozen of them.”
At the foot of a menhir at Pridden, St. Buryan, he found “a deposit of splinters of human bone.” At the foot of a menhir at Trelew, St. Buryan, he found “a deposit of splintered bones similar in quantity and appearance to that found at Pridden.” A precisely similar discovery was made at Trenuggo, Sancreed. Another at Tregonebris.
[15]. This is shown by the presence of bronze sickles in Ligurian graves and their absence in Iberian.