Abbots Bromley (Staffs.), 160, 185
Abbotsbury (Dorset), 128 n.
Abbotsham (Devon), 345
Aberdeen, 301
Abinger (Surrey), mound, 62-3;
stocks, 165
Achnacree (Argyle), 299
Acoustic jars in churches, 446-9, 451
Acoustic skulls in churches, 444-5, 449-51
Addington (Kent), 46
Addy, Mr S. O., on old Welsh courts, 64;
Touting Hills, 71;
old St Paul’s, 139;
Royal Arms in churches, 144;
theory respecting basilicas, 147-50, 151;
word “church,” 147-9;
“lord’s house,” 148;
ostiarius, 149
Adonis, and Yuletide, 27
Aeneas, and chariots, 429
Aeneolithic Age, 249, 417, 419, 483
Aerolites, in churches, 197;
superstition respecting, 198
Aestheticism in architecture, 238-41
Age of trees, how determined, 366-8
Agglestone, the (Dorset), 35-6
Ainus, burial customs of the, 247
Aird Dhubh (mountain), 352
Airy, Rev. W., on orientation of churches, 222, 226, 227, 233
Aland Isles, 402
Alciston (Sussex), 344
Aldborough (Yorks.), 273
Aldbourne (Wilts.), barrow, 314, 315
Aldworth (Berks.), 374, 398
“Ales” (= feasts), 175-9
Alexander Severus, 422
Alfold (Surrey), stocks, 165;
yew, 221 n.
Alfriston (Sussex), clergy house, 176;
elm, 176, 384
Alinement of churches (see Orientation)
Allcroft, Mr A. H., on Chisbury camp, 14;
Burpham, 16;
Mediaeval earthworks, 16, 60;
defensive churches, 17;
churches near earthworks, 17;
Church Barrow, 30;
castle-mounds, 55, 67;
Cublington earthworks, 60;
mound at Walton-on-the-Hill, 67;
word “Toot,” 71;
window-slits, 116
Allen, Grant, on grave-mounds, 260, 264;
trees on barrows, 270;
objects buried with the dead, 280, 319;
barrow burials, 320;
Evolution of the Idea of God, cited, 400
Allen, Mr J. Romilly, on the Chi-Rho, 5;
Irish round towers, 121-2;
orientation of graves, 247;
evolution of “wheel-cross,” 269-70;
coped tombstones, 272;
burial customs of early Christians, 272, 275;
Charon’s penny, 296;
the comb in ritual, 311-12;
burial of crozier with bishops, 311-12;
chariot-burial, 430
Allington (Kent), 75
Alloa (Clackmannan), 275
All Souls’ Day, 27;
Eve, 446
Alnwick (Northumberland), 163
Alpha Centauri, orientation to, 259
Alphamstone (Essex), 84-6
Altars, at East end of church, 205, 208-24;
at West end, 206, 207, 214-17
Altar-tombs, 76, 346
Alton (Hants.), 496
Alvingham (Lincs.), 137
Amber, beads in graves, 300-1;
as a charm, 301
Amesbury (Wilts.), churchyard, 344;
discoveries at, 483
Amulets, in graves, 298, 300;
teeth, used as, 301, 314
Ancaster (Lincs.), 12
Ancestor-worship, 280
Anchitherium, 409
Andrews, Dr C. W., on the horse, 408
Angers (France), 447
Anglo-Saxon remains (see under Saxon)
Animism, defined, 279;
Prof. Tylor on, 279-81
Anketell, Rev. R. H., on Alphamstone discoveries, 85, 86
Anne Boleyn’s Well (Surrey), 96
Annual rings, in trees, 364, 365, 366-9
Apostolical Constitutions, quoted, 211
Applesham Creek (Sussex), 78
Apsidal churches, 20, 22, 149, 213
Arabs, and magnetic needle, 228;
burial customs, 293;
cardinal points of, 326;
and shoeing horses, 472
Arbalest, or cross-bow, 385, 386
Arber, Prof. E., his “English Scholar’s Library,” 244
Archaeologia, cited, 430
Archaeologia Cantiana, cited, 428
Archery, British, 385-94;
statutes concerning, 389-90;
practised on the village green, 392;
traditions, 491
Arcturus, orientation to, 259
Arkholme (Lancs.), mound, 56, 61
Arles (France), Council of, 2;
church of St Blaise, 447
Arlington (Sussex), 79
Armitage, Mrs E. S., on castle-mounds, 55
Armour, stored in churches, 157-62;
parish, 158;
town, 158;
funeral, 159, 284;
at Repton, 159;
Darley, 159;
Mendlesham, 160;
Olaus Magnus, respecting, 161-2;
stands for, in churches, 496
Arnold-Forster, Miss F., her Studies in Church Dedications, 234
Arrichinaga (Spain), 29
Arrow-heads, 283, 315, 388, 390
Arrows, regulation of manufacture, 390
Art, of primitive man, 411-12, 414, 420-1
Aryans, early orientation among, 325, 328;
supposed Asiatic origin, 333, 382;
and horses, 421-2
Ascension Day customs, 92
Ascham, Roger, on archery, 391
Ash (Kent), 283
Ashburnham (Sussex), 201 n.
Ashburton (Devon), manorial courts, 137;
yew-tree, 391;
acoustic jars, 449, 450
Ashby, Dr Thomas, explorations at Caerwent, 25
Ashby-de-la-Zouch (Leicester), 349
Ashford (Middlesex), 250 n.
Ashtead (Surrey), Roman camp, 11;
cedar and yew in churchyard, 384
Ash-trees, in churchyards, 384
Ash-Wednesday, symbolism of, 317;
and yew, 382
Assandun, battle of, 200
Aston, as place-name, 339
Astronomy, early, 254, 257;
cycles, 256
As You Like It, quoted, 460
Athelstan, and horse-breeding, 422
Athenaeum, cited, 4, 441
Athenian coins, 484;
sacrifices, 484
Atkinson, Canon J. C., on Whitby Abbey, 234, 239;
charcoal in graves, 289-90;
funeral feasts, 319;
“averils,” 320;
grave-mounds, 357
Aubrey, John, on horseshoe custom, 157;
dancing in church, 185;
burial in a
North-and-South direction, 244;
Tandridge yew, 370-1
Augurs, divination by the left hand, 326, 327;
by the horse, 434, 435
Augustine, and churches, 26
Augustus, Emperor, his villa at Capri, 198;
burial of his horse, 432
Aurochs, the, 477
Austen, Canon G., on Whitby Abbey, 234 n., 235
Australia, burial customs, 247, 313, 322
Austria, 452
Auvergne, churches of, 216
Avebury (Wilts.), earthwork, 13, 30;
church, 13;
Palm Sunday celebration, 194
Avebury, Lord, on the horse, 416
Aveley (Essex), 189
“Averils,” or averil bread, 320
Avisford (Sussex), 314
Axes, made of amber, 299
Aylesford (Kent), “urn-field,” 261;
flat-earth burials, 276;
discovery of bucket, 434
Aysgarth (Yorks.), 259

Baal-worship, 218, 220
Bagshot Sands, 35, 40
Bailey, or bailey-court, 52, 61
Bailiff, chosen in church, 143
Bakewell (Derby), churchyard cross, 329
Bakewell, Robert, on shoeing oxen, 473
Baldock (Herts.), 159
Bale, Bishop, his Protestant plays, 183
Bamberg (Bavaria), 27
Bampton (Norfolk), 222
Banquets, in churches, 178-80;
funeral, 319-21, 419
Baptism, at the church door, 143;
St Jerome on, 220;
superstition, 331
Barclay, E., on Stonehenge, 219
Bards, assemblies of, 33, 98
Bardsey (Yorks.), 59
Barfreston (Kent), 239
Baring-Gould, Rev. S., on holy wells of Cornwall, 96;
wheels of fortune, 202;
deflected chancels, 231;
animals suspended from trees, 443
Barkway (Herts.), 448
Barnet (Herts.), 344
Barrington, Daines, on Fortingal yew, 376;
on “shelter theory,” 384
Barrows, at Abinger, 62-3;
early respect for, 64, 83, 87;
Over Worton, 75;
Ryton, 76;
Brinklow, 76;
Speeton, 78;
Taplow, 81-2;
Ludlow, 82;
of Neolithic and Bronze Ages, 99, 249, 417;
trees planted on, 270;
discussion on word, 270-1;
objects found in, 280, 282-3, 285, 300-1, 430, 483;
fire-kindlers in, 293, 294;
fossils, 302-4, 305;
Aldbourne, 314, 315;
feasts, 320, 438;
North side of, 357;
horse in, 416, 417, 419;
oxen in, 483
Bartholomew Anglicus, quoted, 456
Barwick-in-Elmet (Yorks.), 59
Basildon (Berks.), 373
Basilica, at Southwell, 9;
Reculver, 20;
Silchester, 23;
meaning of word, 146, 151;
Roman, 148, 150;
British, 148, 213;
at Jarrow, 149;
Rome, 150, 214-15;
orientation of, 213, 214-15;
at Bosham, 495
Bateman, T., his excavations of barrows, 416
Battlements, 117
Bavaria, 497
Baye, Baron J. de, on sacrificial custom, 321
Bayeux tapestry, and long-bow, 387;
oxen, 455
Bayonne (France) Cathedral, 231
Beads, in graves, 300-1, 305, 314
Becket’s shrine, 131
Beckett, Sir E. (Lord Grimthorpe), on orientation, 216;
acoustic jars, 447
Beckmann, J., on shoeing horses, 470 n.
Bedale (Yorks.), 107
Bede, the Venerable, on St Alban, 4;
St Martin’s, 20;
temple at Godmanham, 32;
Wessex, 36;
Jarrow, 43;
orientation of graves, 244, 247;
witchcraft, 397;
horse-races, 422;
story of Coifi, 436
Beehive huts, 120
Beeston (Norfolk), 353
Belemnites, in barrows, 307
Belfries, in Ireland, 120-2;
origin of word, 126-7;
horse-skulls found in, 445
Belgium, votive offerings, 203;
caves of, 308;
burial customs, 311
Belloc, Mr Hilaire, on Bishopstoke church, 45;
Pilgrims’ Way, 338, 339
Bells, early, 120-2;
“thief and reever,” 138;
Mediaeval, 448;
on oxen, 462-3, 475
Beltane fires, 403
Beltout (Sussex), 71
Benachie (Aberdeen), 48
Benedictine abbeys, 329
“Benefit of adjuration,” 354
Bengal, grave-gifts of, 313
Bennett, Mr F. J., on sarsens near churches, 40;
Ogbourne Maisey mound, 75
Benson, Mr A. C., quoted, 137
“Beowulf,” use of the word “gallows,” 68;
funeral mounds, 73;
amulets in graves, 300
Berenger, Richard, on horseshoes, 424
Berkeley (Glos.), detached tower, 122;
school in church porch, 154
Berkeley, Bishop G., quoted, 333
Berkshire, yews of, 406
Berwick (Sussex), mound, 75-6;
dovecot, 188, 189
Berzelius, on analysis of bone, 90
Beverley (Yorks.) Minster, 165;
oxen, 452
Bewcastle (Cumberland), 87
Bible, ideas of orientation in, 217-20;
quoted, 318;
symbolism of the North, 334-5;
references to the horse, 420;
white horses, 433;
horse hoofs, 472;
oxen, 481, 487
Bid-ales, 179
Bields (= cattle-shelters), 68
Bildeston (Suffolk), 155
Binstead (I. of Wight), 49
Birch, Mr W. de Gray, on Domesday ox-team, 458
Birling (Kent), 40
Birmingham, St Bartholomew’s chapel, 211
Bishops, burial of, 312
Bishopsgate Street (London), 247
Bishopstoke (Hants.), 45
Bishopstone (Sussex), position of church, 101;
sundial, 162;
chancel, 230;
churchyard, 344
Bishops Stortford (Herts.), 418
Bisley (Glos.), 95
Bison, the European, 475-6
Black Death, the, 175
Black, Mr W. G., on yew in witchcraft, 396
Blackmore, Mr Stephen, 80, 474
Blashill, Mr T., on ancient agriculture, 497
Blickling (Norfolk), 266
Blomfield, Prof. R., on orientation, 209
Bloomsbury (London), 207
“Blue stones,” 35, 193
Blunt, Mr W. S., on shoeing horses, 471-2
Blyborough (Lincs.), 346
Boars’ tusks in graves, 80, 83, 302, 310, 430
Boat, model of Scandinavian, 108
Boldre (Hants.), 384
Bologna (Italy), 216
Bolsterstone (Yorks.), 42
Bolton (Lancs.), 137
Bond, Mr F., on Southwell Cathedral, 9;
Westminster Abbey, 9, 134-5;
age of church towers, 108;
Irish round towers, 121;
size of churches, 134-5;
entasis of spires, 240
Bone-caves, 308, 411, 417
Bones, in churches, 198-201;
as talismans, 321
Bonner, Mr A., on place-names, 32, 43
Bonner, Bishop, and miracle plays, 183
Booty, Rev. C. S., on Rudstone menhir, 43
Borromeo, St Charles, on church-building, 241
Bosbury (Hereford), 123
Boscawen-ûn (Cornwall), 256
Bos frontosus, 480
Bosham (Sussex), Roman villa, 9, 495;
deflected chancel, 230;
pole in, 496
Bos longifrons, 476, 478, 479, 480
Bos primigenius, 476, 477, 479, 480
Bos priscus, 475
Boston (Lincs.), mayor chosen in church, 143;
discoveries at, 444
Botontine (= surveyor’s mound), 61
Bottesford (Lincs.), 350
Boulder Clay, 16, 36,