[377] Antiquary, 1899, XXXV. p. 178.
[378] Notes and Queries, 10th Ser., XI. pp. 422-4. See also 12th Ser., II. pp. 130-1.
[379] P. Vinogradoff, Eng. Society in the Eleventh Century, 1908, p. 30.
[380] J. C. Cox, in Curious Church Customs, ed. W. Andrews, pp. 179-80.
[381] Ibid. p. 180.
[382] Antiquary, 1910, N. S., VI. p. 122. It has been stated that every parish church in the Isle of Wight formerly possessed its gun. Brading gun, now preserved at Nunwell, is the only specimen left. (Notes and Queries, 11th Ser., II. p. 176.)
[383] Notes and Queries, 11th Ser., I. p. 346, II. p. 16. An attempt has been made to connect the Robin Hood Dancers with a survival of the solar myth, and to show that certain place-names, said to be compounded from Robin Hood, designate pagan sites (Notes and Queries, 11th Ser., I. pp. 493-4). Folk-Lore, 1910, XXI. p. 248 n.
[384] Olaus Magnus, Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus, 1555, l. xvi. c. 21.
[385] Ibid. l. xvi. c. 20.
[386] Reliquary, 1892, N. S., VI. pp. 65-67. Cf. Dissertation by Olaus Magnus, op. cit. l. I. cc. 32, 33. Several Saxon dial-stones are described in Surrey Archaeol. Coll., XV. pp. 74-77; XXI. pp. 86-88. See also J. C. Cox, Rambles in Surrey, 1910, p. 190. G. Baldwin Brown, op. cit. II. p. 131.