[717] J. Y. Akerman, Remains of Saxon Pagandom, 1853, pp. xvi, xvii; Baron J. de Baye, Indus. Arts of the Anglo-Saxons, tr. J. B. Harbottle, 1893, pp. 119-20, makes the same statement.
[718] R. A. Bullen, Harlyn Bay, 1902, p. 24.
[719] J. C. Atkinson, Forty Years in a Moorland Parish, 2nd edition, 1891, pp. 213-5, 220.
[720] Atkinson, op. cit. p. 432.
[721] Guide to Bronze Age, pp. 60-61.
[722] Atkinson, op. cit. p. 220. Cf. Mortimer, Forty Years’ Researches, p. xl; Pitt-Rivers, Excav. in Cranborne Chase, II. pp. 33-36, 45.
[723] Greenwell, British Barrows, p. 29.
[724] Archaeologia, XXXV. pp. 301-3.
[725] Durandus, Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, l. VII. c. 37. In the same way Durandus states that ivy and laurel were used because they were typical of eternal life. These plausible explanations have received acute comment in Archaeologia, XXXV. pp. 301-3.
[726] Forty Years in a Moorland Parish, p. 157.