[27] “History of the Anglo-Saxons,” by Sharon Turner, 1823, vol. iii. p. 224.
[28] From the Entertaining Magazine, March, 1814.
[29] The heads of the arrows are formed of flint.
[30] A large knife, of a metal resembling brass, was the only implement of a metallic nature discovered in the barrow; it might, therefore, be supposed to have been a present to the British chief from the ‘princely merchants’ of Phœnicia.
[31] The Roman road, raised on flints, goes close to the barrow, and deviates from the straight line on purpose to avoid it: a proof of the antiquity of the barrow and the veneration of the Romans for the dead.
[32] Hesus and Taranis, Celtic Deities, of the same character as Woden and Thor in the Saxon mythology.
“Horrensque suis altaribus Hesus
Et Taranis, Scythicæ non mitior ara Dianæ.”—Lucan.
[33] Even in the time of Lucan it was deserted, for he speaks of “desertæ mœnia Lunæ.” (See Lucan, Phars. i. 586.) Bulwer, in his “King Arthur” (Book iv. stanza 14), writes:—
“That old friendly soil
Whose ports, perchance, yet glitter with the prows
Of Punic ships, when resting from their toil
In Luna’s gulf, the seabeat crews carouse.”
[34] Calendar of State Papers, Report on the foundation, history, and present state of St. Katherine’s Hospital.