The white horse constituted the arms of Brunswick or Burn's Wick; horses were carved upon the ancient font at _Burn_sall in Yorkshire, and that the _broncho_ was esteemed in Britain by the flint knappers is implied by the etching of a horse's head found upon a polished horse rib in a cave at _Cress_well Crags in Derbyshire. _Ceres_ or Demeter was represented as a mare, _cres_ is the root of _cresco_--I grow, and among the white horses carved upon the chalk downs of England, one at Bratton was marked by an exaggerated "crescentic tail". Bratton, or Bra-ton? Hill, whereon this curious brute was carved, may be connoted with Bradon, and Bratton may also be compared with _prad_, a word which in horsey circles means a horse, whence _prad cove_, a dealer in horses: with the white horse at Bratton may be connoted the horse carved upon the downs at _Pre_ston near Weymouth. For a mass of miscellaneous and interesting horse-lore the curious reader may refer to Mr. Walter Johnson's _Byways in British Archæology_: the opinion of this painstaking and reliable writer is that the famed white horse of Bratton, like its fellow at Uffington, although usually believed to commemorate victories over the Danes are more probably to be referred to the Late Bronze, or Early Iron Age. It has already been noted that artificially white horses were inscribed at times on Scotch hills, but these earth-monuments are unrecorded either in Ireland or on the Continent. On the higher part of Dartmoor there is a bare patch on the granite plateau in form resembling a horse, but whether the clearing is artificial is uncertain: the probabilities are, however, in favour of design for the site is known as White Horse Hill.[420] The White Horse of Berkshire--the shire of the horse, Al Borak, or the _brok_?--is situated at Uffington, a name which the authorities decode into town or village of Uffa: I do not think this imaginary "Uffa" was primarily a Saxon settler, and it is more probable that Uffa was _hipha_, the Tyrian title of the Great Mother whose name also meant _mare_, whence the Hellenic _hippa_. The authorities would like to read Avebury, a form of Abury or Avereberie, as _burg of Aeffa_, but near Avebury there is a white horse cut upon the slope of a down, and the adjacent place-name Uffcot suggests that here also was an _hipha_-cot, or cromlech. The ride of Lady Godiva nude upon a white horse was, as we shall see later, probably the survival of an ancient festival representative of _Good Hipha_, the St. Ive, or St. Eve, who figures here and there in Britain, otherwise Eve, the Mother of All Living. There used to be traces at Stonehenge of a currus or horse-course, and all the evidence is strongly in favour of the supposition that the horse has been with us in these islands for an exceedingly long time.