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THE WHITE HORSES
OF THE
WEST OF ENGLAND.

WITH NOTICES OF SOME OTHER
ANCIENT TURF-MONUMENTS.

BY THE
REV W. C. PLENDERLEATH, M.A.,
RECTOR OF CHERHILL, WILTS.

LONDON: ALFRED RUSSELL SMITH.
CALNE: ALFRED HEATH.

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PREFACE.

The following pages contain the substance of an article which I contributed some years ago to the Wiltshire Archæological Magazine (vol. xiv., p. 12), and which I have been repeatedly asked to reprint. It has now been entirely re-written, with considerable additions, including notices of several other ancient Turf-Monuments, which appeared to possess an interest strictly cognate to those of the older Horses. I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to my friend Mr. Cyril Davenport, of the British Museum, for some very accurate drawings of illustrative coins which he has kindly made for me, and which appear on p. 16. Also to Mr. Soames, Rector of Mildenhall, and Mr. Goddard, Vicar of Clyffe Pypard, for permission to publish three of the coins in question, none of which have, I believe, been ever before figured.

W. C. P.

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