Byways in British Archaeology

by Walter Johnson

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Walton-on-Thames (Surrey), [163]
Wandsworth (London), [260]
Ward, Mr John, on Roman sites, [495]
Wareham (Dorset), [274]
Warlingham (Surrey), [291]
Warmsworth (Yorks.), [123]
Warne, Charles, on Knowlton earthworks, [401]
Warner, R., on tradition concerning the yew, [392]
Warnford (Hants.), [162]
Warrington (Lancs.), [56-7]
Warry, Mrs C. King, on “church-gift,” [155]
Watchet (Somerset), [95]
Watching-lofts, [126]
Watcombe (Berks.), [377]
Wateringbury (Kent), [167]
Watson, Mr G., on deflected chancel, [231]
Watson, Mr William, quoted, [407]
Weapons, in churches, [158-62];
in graves, [282-4], [293];
offered to, [285]
Weathercocks, on churches, [164]
Weatherston, Mr J., on horseshoes, [426]
Webb, Mr E. A., on Chislehurst grave, [77]
Webb, Mr and Mrs S., on meetings held in churches, [140-2]
“Weeping chancels,” [228];
theories concerning, [233-8]
Wehner, H., on orientation, [227]
Welbourn (Lincs.), [240]
Well (Lincs.), [206], [207]
Wellesbourne (Warwick), [272]
Wellington (Somerset), [347]
Wellington, Duke of, burial of his horse, [432]
Well-worship, [92-7], [442], [482]
Welsh courts, old, [64];
poem quoted, [301];
bards, [398];
laws, [398]
Wendish settlements, [341];
burials, [429]
Wendover (Bucks.), [104]
Wenlock Priory (Salop), [95]
Wessex, superstitions, [296-7]
West, prayer towards, [217], [333];
symbolism of the, [217], [332-3];
in place-names, [339-40]
West Beckham (Norfolk), [222]
West Dean (Sussex), [177], [344], [455]
Westermarck, Prof. E., on primitive religion, [281];
burial of suicides, [358], [359] n.
West Malling, [230]
West Mersea (Essex), [7]
Westmeston (Sussex), [384], [443]
Westminster Abbey, Roman remains, [9];
size of, [134];
orientation of, [223];
deflected choir, [232];
Ben Jonson’s grave in, [266];
burial of Lord Palmerston in, [310]
Westminster Gate House, [139]
Weston, as place-name, [339]
Weston-in-Gordano (Somerset), [155]
Weston-under-Redcastle (Salop), [165]
West Tarring (Sussex), [496]
West Wycombe (Bucks.), [15]
Wexford (Ireland), [271]
Weybridge (Surrey), [344]
Wharfedale (Yorks.), [444]
Whatley (Somerset), Roman villa, [9];
sarsens near church, [41];
squint, [151];
burial on North side, [345]
Wheat, at funerals, [318]
Wheels, of fortune, [202-3];
chariot, in barrows, [430]
Whitby (Yorks.), parish church, [127], [234];
oxen employed near, [453]
Whitby Abbey, used as a beacon, [127];
alinement of, [230], [239];
double dedication, [233-5];
Pugin’s opinion concerning, [236];
oxen, [453]
Whitchurch (Oxford), [344]
White, Gilbert, burial on North side, [343], [348];
connection with Faringdon, [344];
Selborne churchyard, [354];
yew, [378];
“shelter theory,” [383]
White, H. Kirke, quoted, [335]
White horses, [433-4];
carvings of, [433-4]
Whitemoorstone Down (Devon), [256]
Whitepark Bay (Antrim), [418], [418] n.
White pebbles, in graves, [299]
Whitestaunton (Somerset), [95], [97]
Whitsun-ales, [177]
Whittlebury (Northants.), [84]
Wickes (Essex), [123]
Wickham, East and West (Kent), [340]
Widdicombe (Devon), [345]
Widford (Glos.), [7]
Wiggonholt (Sussex), [418]
William the Conqueror, at Hastings, [57];
and punishment by hanging, [68]
William Fitzstephen, on horse-races, [422];
London market, [457];
his Life of Becket, [477]
William of Malmesbury, on Glastonbury, [23];
racehorses, [422]
Wills, stored in churches, [170]
Willy Howe (Yorks.), [66-7]
Wilson, Prof. J., on British oxen, [477];
Park cattle, [478];
polled cattle, [479];
Celtic shorthorn, [480]
Wilson, Sir D., on Gaelic, [49]
Wiltshire, barrows of, [249], [250], [288], [305];
prehistoric monuments, [253];
burial custom, [313];
superstition, [334];
oxen, [453], [473];
discovery in barrow, [483]
Winchester, cathedral, [9], [10];
Synod of, [140];
Statute of, [192]
Windr-, in place-names, [341]
Wingham (Kent), [8]
Winkelbury (Wilts.), Saxon burials at, [250], [285];
yew grove, [403]
Winter-, in place-names, [341]
Winterbourne, place-name, [341]
Winterton (Lincs.), [342]
Wisdom of Solomon, quoted, [217-18]
Witches, legends concerning, [103-4], [106], [438];
horseshoe charm, [157];
amber charms against, [301];
and churchyard yew, [396];
Bede’s injunction, [397];
kept away by fox’s skull, [443]
Wodin (see under Odin)
Woldingham (Surrey), [355], [356]
Wolstan, monk of Winchester, [211]
Wolves, teeth of, [301-2], [310]
Woodbury Hill (Dorset), [193]
Woodchester (Glos.), [8]
Woodcuts (Dorset), [302], [403], [424]
Woodcuts Common, [30]
Wood-Martin, Mr W. G., on cromlechs in churchyards, [49], [86];
holy wells, [93];
Irish graves, [299];
the deiseal, [330]
Woodnesborough (Kent), [74]
Woodward, Dr H., on fossil teeth, [307]
Woodyates (Dorset), [275];
horseshoes found at, [424]
Wookey (Somerset), [382]
Wool, stored in churches, [173];
in coffins, [313]
Woollen, burial in, [271], [278-9]
Woolwich and Reading Beds, [40]
Words and Places, cited, [32]
Wordsworth, W., quoted, [135], [209-10], [240-1], [355], [496]
Worth (Sussex), [332]
Worth Matravers (Dorset), [275]
Wotjo (Australian station), [252]
Wotton (Surrey), church porch, [153];
curious burial, [245]
Wrabness (Essex), [123]
Wrexham (Denbigh), [374]
Wright, Mr A. G., on Alphamstone discoveries, [84], [85]
Wright, Thomas, on Addington church, [45];
St Weonards mound, [56];
Roman inscriptions, [69];
grave-mounds, [83], [260];
yew found in cinerary urn, [399]
Wroxeter (Salop), [7], [10]
Wyatt, Mr J., on fossils used as beads, [307]
Wyclif’s Bible, [71]
Wylie, W. M., on Fairford graves, [288-9]
Wyre Piddle (Worcester), [78-9]
Xenophon, cited, [70]
Yarnborough, or Yarnbury Camp (Wilts.), [193]
Yateley (Hants.), [344]
Yesso (Japan), [247]
Yew, at St Weonards, [56];
Taplow, [81];
the churchyard, [160], [328], [348], [353], [360-407], [490-1];
botanical description, [360-1];
Irish variety, [361], [406];
indigenous tree, [361];
whether poisonous, [361-2], [385], [395];
origin of word, [362-3];
De Candolle on, [364-6], [368];
methods of estimating age, [364-74];
theory of annual rings, [366-8];
on Pilgrims’ Way, [374-5];
Fortingal, [375-6], [379], [403];
Brabourne, [376];
Hensor, [376];
Darley Dale, [376];
Kersal, [377];
Fountains Abbey, [377];
Watcombe, [377];
miscellaneous specimens, [377-8];
why planted in churchyards, [380-98], [407];
use on Palm Sunday, [380-2];
“Yew Cross,” [382];
symbolism theory, [382-3];
protection theory, [383-4];
why enclosed, [385];
bow theory, [385-94];
foreign yew formerly imported, [390-2];
in Irish folk-lore, [395], [401-2];
in witchcraft, [396-7];
in symbolism, [398], [400-1];
in magic, [399], [401-2];
vessels and implements made of, [402];
fossil condition, [403];
and open-air courts, [404];
position in churchyards, [404-6];
conclusions respecting, [406-7]
Yggdrasil, magic tree of the Eddas, [328], [334]
Yoke, used for oxen, [461-2];
description of, [462]
York Fabric Rolls, quoted, [173]
York, Minster Yard, [165];
cathedral, [170];
St Michael’s-le-Belfry, [191];
alinement of cathedral, [230], [232];
St Mary’s, [230];
ancient will referred to, [471]
Yorkshire, holy wells of, [92], [97];
councils in churches and churchyards, [140];
dancing in churches, [185];
barrows, [249], [261-2], [276], [307], [417];
teeth superstition, [322];
churchyard trees, [406];
use of ox in, [452-3], [458], [465]
Youatt, W., on horseshoes, [427];
on horse-sandals, [428];
ox-team, [461], [465];
ox-races, [467];
shoeing oxen, [473];
on the trevis, [474]
Youens, Mr E. C., and horseshoe, [425-6]
Youghal (Cork), [448]
Young, Arthur, on use of ox in Yorkshire, [452];
Essex farmers, [454];
ox-collars, [461];
ox-labour, [467]
“Young Men’s Wardens,” [175]
Yspytty Kenwyn (Cardigan), [48]
Yule-tide, [27]
Zaborowski, M., on drawings of cave-horse, [414]
Zodiac, and Gorsedd circles, [256]
Zoological Gardens (London), [413], [478]
Zoomorphic stones, ornament, [434]

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] E. B. Tylor, in the preface to the second edition of Primitive Culture, 1873.

[2] T. Hodgkin, Hist. of Eng. (Vol. I. of Polit. Hist. of Eng., ed. W. Hunt and R. L. Poole), p. 76; E. Conybeare, Roman Britain, 1903, p. 258.

[3] R. Camber-Williams, in Social England, ed. H. D. Traill, 1894, I. p. 37, and F. T. Richards, same volume, p. 29.

[4] T. Hodgkin, op. cit. p. 76; Conybeare, op. cit. p. 259. Cf. W. E. Addis, Christianity and the Roman Empire, 1893, p. 48.

[5] Conybeare, op. cit. p. 259; O. M. Dalton, Guide to the Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities (Brit. Mus.), 1903, p. 3, and many other writers.

[6] See Conybeare, op. cit. p. 267, and his authorities.