Folk memory; or, The continuity of British archaeology.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1908
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 416
Description: An attempt by the author to link the then-knowledge (1908) of prehistoric archaeology with the then present-day.
Table of contents: title: Chapters; title: I.      Folk-Memory: its Nature and Scope.; title: II.     The Continuity of the Ages of Stone and Bronze.; title: III.    Folk-Memory and Racial Continuity.; title: IV.     Further Links between the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Ages.; title: V.      Traces of the Ages of Stone and Bronze shown by Later Implements.; title: VI.     Stone and Bronze in Ceremonies and Superstitions.; title: VII.   The Later History of the Megaliths.; title: VIII.   Fairies: Mound Treasure: Barrow Superstitions.; title: IX.     The Reputed Virtues of Iron.; title: X.      The Oldest Industry.; title: XI.     Another Ancient Industry.; title: XII.    Dene-Holes.; title: XIII.   Linchets.; title: XIV.   Dew Ponds.; title: XV.    The Incised Figures of Our Chalk-Downs.; title: XVI.   Old Roads and Trackways.; title: XVII.  References and Bibliography; Addenda; and Index.