[727] Prim. Culture, I. p. 483 n. (Long list of authorities given.)
[728] Quoted by R. A. Bullen, Harlyn Bay, p. 23 n.
[729] Folk-Memory, pp. 190-3.
[730] Pliny, Nat. Hist., l. XXXVI. c. 27. The practice was common in the Late-Celtic period. (See Archaeologia, 1909, LXI. pp. 329-346.)
[731] P. Holland, edition of Pliny’s Nat. Hist., 1601, II. p. 587.
[732] É. Littré, translation of Pliny’s Nat. Hist., 1850, t. II. p. 521.
[733] Anc. Stone Impts, p. 422.
[734] Prof. G. Stephens, cited by Atkinson, Forty Years in a Moorland Parish, pp. 213-5.
[735] S. Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, new edition, 1888, pp. 560-1.
[736] Folk-Lore, X. p. 253. The Lincolnshire example is given in Vol. IX. p. 187. The burial of pins is recorded in Antiquities and Curiosities of the Church, ed. W. Andrews, 1897, p. 248.