[677] Archaeologia, XXXVII. p. 456-7.
[678] De Macrobii Saturnaliorum fontibus, L. vii. ch. 7.
[679] Folk-Lore, XII. 1901, pp. 361-2; 468-9.
[680] Sir A. J. Evans, in Archaeologia, LII. pp. 386-7.
[681] Ibid. p. 386. The exploration of “King Bjorn’s Tumulus,” near Upsala, afforded still another phase of transition. The mound, which belonged to the 4th period of the Northern Bronze Age, contained an oak stem, hollowed to serve as a coffin, but intended, as the relics proved, to hold the cremated remains of the deceased person. (Reliquary, XV. 1909, p. 148.) Cf. Vict. Hist. of Kent, I. pp. 434-5.
[682] Mon. Hist. of the Early Brit. Church, p. 65. Cf. D. Rock, Church of our Fathers, 1903, II. pp. 252-3.
[683] Curious Church Customs, p. 132; Mon. Architecture, p. 76.
[684] Guide to Bronze Age, p. 43.
[685] E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, 3rd edition, 1891, I. pp. 424, 425.
[686] Tylor, op. cit. I. p. 424. Cf. Lord Avebury, Marriage, Totemism, and Religion, 1911, passim.