"The efforts that have been made to pierce the masonry have failed in ascertaining whether there are chambers inside. No satisfactory explanation of its origin and purpose has yet been discovered. It may have formed the foundation of a 'pharos'. The late C. R. Smith, whose opinion on the subject is of especial value, and also later authorities, have thought that this remarkable structure enclosed receptacles either for the storage of water, or for the deposit of treasure awaiting shipment."--_A Short Account of the Records of Richborough_ (W. D.). [478] _Britannia Antiquissima_, p. 5. [479] This on the face of it looks far-fetched, but the intermediate forms may easily be traced, and the suggestion is really more rational than the current claim that _fir_ and _quercus_ are the "same word". [480] Statues of Epona represent her seated "between foals". _Ancient Britain_, p. 279. [481] A small bell swinging in a circle may often be seen to-day as a "flyer" ornament on the heads of London carthorses. [482] Guest, Dr., _Origines Celticæ_, ii., p. 159. [483] Tacitus in _Agricola_ gives Cogidumnus an excellent reference to the following effect: "Certain districts were assigned to Cogidumnus, a king who reigned over part of the country. He lived within our own memory, preserving always his faith unviolated, and exhibiting a striking proof of that refined policy, with which it has ever been the practice of Rome to make even kings accomplices in the servitude of mankind." [484] This functionary is said to have acquired his title by distraining on, or catching the people's pullets. [485] _The Romance of Names_, p. 184. [486] Hazlitt, W. C., _Faiths and Folklore_, ii., 543. [487] _Ibid._, ii., 408. [488] At _Bick_ley (Kent) is _Shaw_field Park. [489] The neighbouring "Canholes" will be considered in a later chapter. [490] _Æneid_, Bk. V., 39. [491] _Kensington_, p. 89. [492] _Ibid._, p. 89. [493] Davies, E., _Mytho. of Ancient Druids_, p. 528.