Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Archaic England - An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic - Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and - Faerie Superstitions. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Harold Bayley, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Archaic England - An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic - Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and - Faerie Superstitions in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Archaic England - An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic - Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and - Faerie Superstitions: Look inside the book: Similarly the discovery of prehistoric implements in the gravel-beds at Abbeville was treated with inconsequence and insult, and it was upwards of twenty years before it was reluctantly conceded that: “While we have been straining our eyes to the East, and eagerly watching excavations in Egypt and Assyria, suddenly a new light has arisen in the midst of us; and the oldest relics of man yet discovered have occurred, not among the ruins of Nineveh or Heliopolis, not on the sandy plains of the Nile or the Euphrates, but in the pleasant valleys of England and France, along the banks of the Seine and the Somme, the Thames and the Waveney.” ...According to the author of Bogs and Ancient Forests, when the Bog of Allen in Kildare was cut through, oak, fir, yew, and other trees were found buried 20 or 30 feet below the surface, and these trees generally lie prostrated in a horizontal position, and have the appearance of being burned at the bottom of their trunks and roots, fire having been found far more powerful in prostrating those forests than cutting them down with an axe; and the great depth at which these trees are found in bogs, shows that they must have lain there for many ages.

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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Archaic England - An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic - Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and - Faerie Superstitions. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Harold Bayley, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have Archaic England - An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic - Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and - Faerie Superstitions in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside Archaic England - An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic - Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and - Faerie Superstitions: Look inside the book: Similarly the discovery of prehistoric implements in the gravel-beds at Abbeville was treated with inconsequence and insult, and it was upwards of twenty years before it was reluctantly conceded that: "While we have been straining our eyes to the East, and eagerly watching excavations in Egypt and Assyria, suddenly a new light has arisen in the midst of us; and the oldest relics of man yet discovered have occurred, not among the ruins of Nineveh or Heliopolis, not on the sandy plains of the Nile or the Euphrates, but in the pleasant valleys of England and France, along the banks of the Seine and the Somme, the Thames and the Waveney." ...According to the author of Bogs and Ancient Forests, when the Bog of Allen in Kildare was cut through, oak, fir, yew, and other trees were found buried 20 or 30 feet below the surface, and these trees generally lie prostrated in a horizontal position, and have the appearance of being burned at the bottom of their trunks and roots, fire having been found far more powerful in prostrating those forests than cutting them down with an axe; and the great depth at which these trees are found in bogs, shows that they must have lain there for many ages.

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Excerpt from Archaic England: An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory From Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-Names, and Faerie Superstitions The Lost Language of Symbolism An inquiry into the origin of cer tain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies. 2 vols. London. 1912 (william a Norgate). About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.