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. INTRODUCTION II. PREHISTORIC REMAINS III. TUMULI OR BARROWS IV. PIT AND PILE DWELLINGS V. CROMLECHS, CAMPS, AND EARTHWORKS VI. ROMAN RELICS VII. ANGLO-SAXON VILLAGES VIII. SAXON RELICS IX. ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE X. NORMAN VILLAGES AND THE "DOMESDAY BOOK" XI. NORMAN CASTLES XII. MONASTERIES XIII. THE MANOR-HOUSE XIV. PARISH CHURCHES XV. CHURCH PLATE XVI. MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES AND BRASSES XVII. THE PARISH CHEST XVIII. STAINED GLASS, TILES, AND MURAL PAINTINGS XIX. CHURCH BELLS XX. THE MEDIAEVAL VILLAGE XXI. VILLAGE SPORTS AND PASTIMES XXII. THE VILLAGE INN XXIII. VILLAGE SUPERSTITIONS AND FOLKLORE

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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An English village Village street Palaeolithic implements Neolithic and bronze implements Old market cross Broughton Castle Netley Abbey, south transept Southcote Manor, showing moat and pigeon-house Old Manor-house--Upton Court Stone Tithe Barn, Bradford-on-Avon Village church in the Vale An ancient village Anne Hathaway's cottage Old stocks and whipping-post Village inn, with old Tithe Barn of Reading Abbey Old cottages

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Barbed and leaf-shaped arrow-heads Plan of a tumulus Plan of tumulus called Wayland Smith's Cave, Berkshire Celtic cinerary urn Articles found in pit dwellings Iron spear-head found at Hedsor Menhir Rollright stones (from Camden's _Britannia_, 1607) Dolmen Plan and section of Chun Castle The White Horse at Uffington Plan of Silchester Capital of column Roman force-pump Tesselated pavement Beating acorns for swine (from the Cotton MS., _Nero_, c. 4) House of Saxon thane Wheel plough (from the Bayeux tapestry) Smithy (from the Cotton MS., B 4) Saxon relics Consecration of a Saxon church Tower of Barnack Church, Northamptonshire Doorway, Earl's Barton Church Tower window, Monkwearmouth Church Sculptured head of doorway, Fordington Church, Dorset Norman capitals Norman ornamental mouldings Croyland Abbey Church, Lincolnshire Semi-Norman arch, Church of St. Cross Early English piers and capitals Dog-tooth ornament Brownsover Chapel, Warwickshire Ball-flower mouldings, Tewkesbury Abbey Ogee arch Decorated capitals, Hanwell and Chacombe Decorated windows, Merton College Chapel; Sandiacre, Derbyshire Decorated mouldings, Elton, Huntingdonshire; Austrey, Warwickshire Perpendicular window, Merton College Chapel, Oxford Tudor arch, vestry door, Adderbury Church, Oxon Perpendicular parapet, St. Erasmus' Chapel, Westminster Abbey Perpendicular moulding, window, Christchurch, Oxford Diagram of a manor Ancient plan of Old Sarum A Norman castle Tournament A monk transcribing Ockwells manor-house Richmond Palace Doorway and staircase, Ufton Court The porch, Ufton Court Window of south wing, Ufton Court Ancient pew-work, Tysoe Church, Warwickshire Early English screen, Thurcaston, Leicestershire Norman piscina, Romsey Church, Hants Lowside window, Dallington Church, Northamptonshire Reading-pew, seventeenth century, Langley Chapel, Salop. Chalice and paten, Sandford, Oxfordshire Pre-Reformation plate Censer or thurible Mural paintings Ancient sanctus bell found at Warwick

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