W. C. Plenderleath, The White Horses of the West of England

Alfred Russell Smith, London, and Alfred Heath, Calne, n.d. [1885]

This is, in the opinion of the archaeologist Stuart Piggott, a “most valuable little book” (Antiquity, 1931, p. 38).

The scanned copy is the first edition; there was a second edition in 1892. The original text has no divisions (apart from the Preface). Since the text is overlong for a single Web page, it is here divided into sections as shown below.

The digitized version contains the following Web pages:

TEXT
Prelims Preface, etc.
Web §1 Introduction: Sacred horses
Web §2 Uffington Horse
Web §3 Westbury Horse
Web §4 Other horses: Cherhill, Marlborough, etc.
Web §5 Other figures: Cerne Giant, Long Man, Crosses

TEXT

Prelims Preface, etc.

Web §1 Introduction: Sacred horses

Web §2 Uffington Horse

Web §3 Westbury Horse

Web §4 Other horses: Cherhill, Marlborough, etc.

Web §5 Other figures: Cerne Giant, Long Man, Crosses

IMAGES
Front cover
Title page
Page 1 [Sample of Victorian printing]
Fig. 1 Uffington Horse
Fig. 2 Coin of Cunobeline
Fig. 3 Coin of Boadicea, number 1
Fig. 4 Coin of Boadicea, number 2
Fig. 5 Ancient British coin
Fig. 6 Westbury Horse: old
Fig. 7 Westbury Horse: new
Fig. 8 Whiteleaf Cross
Fig. 9 Cherhill Horse
Fig. 10 Cerne Giant [bowdlerized]
Fig. 11 Long Man of Wilmington

IMAGES

Front cover

Title page

Page 1 [Sample of Victorian printing]

Fig. 1 Uffington Horse

Fig. 2 Coin of Cunobeline

Fig. 3 Coin of Boadicea, number 1

Fig. 4 Coin of Boadicea, number 2

Fig. 5 Ancient British coin

Fig. 6 Westbury Horse: old

Fig. 7 Westbury Horse: new

Fig. 8 Whiteleaf Cross

Fig. 9 Cherhill Horse

Fig. 10 Cerne Giant [bowdlerized]

Fig. 11 Long Man of Wilmington

EXTRA
A note on the text

EXTRA

A note on the text