Places_, p. 13, note. Ed. 1873.

{1c} There are probably traces of British hill-forts in the
neighbourhood, as on Hoe hill, near Holbeck, distant 4 miles, also
probably at Somersby, Ormsby, and several other places.

{1d} In the name of the near village of Edlington we have probably a
trace of the mystic Druid, _i.e._ British, deity Eideleg, while in
Horsington we may have the Druid sacred animal. Olivers' _Religious
Houses_, Appendix, p. 167.

{2a} _Words and Places_, p. 130.

{2b} The meadow which now lies in the angle formed by the junction of
the Bain and Waring at Horncastle is still called "The Holms," which is
Danish for "islands."

{2c} The name Bain, slightly varied, is not uncommon. There is the
Bannon, or Ban-avon ("avon" also meaning "river"), in Pembrokeshire; the
Ban in Co. Wexford, Bana in Co. Down, Banney (_i.e._ Ban-ea, "ea" also
meaning water) in Yorkshire, Bain in Herefordshire; Banavie (avon) is a
place on the brightly running river Lochy in Argyleshire; and, as meaning
"white," a fair-haired boy or girl is called in Gaelic "Bhana."

{2d} The name Waring (G commonly representing the modern W) is found in
the Yarrow, and Garry in Scotland, the Geirw, a rough mountain stream, at
Pont-y-glyn, in North Wales, and in the Garonne in France.

{2e} _Ars Poetica_, l 59.

{2f} An account of this urn is given by the late Bishop Trollope, with
an engraving of it, in the _Architectural Society's Journal_, vol. iv, p.
200.

{2g} _De Bella Gallico_, bk. v, ch. 12-14.

{2h} Some idea of the extent of these forests, even in later times, may
be formed from the account given by De la Prime (_Philosophical
Transactions_, No. 75, p. 980) who says "round about the skirts of the
wolds are found infinite millions of the roots and bodies of trees of
great size." Pliney tells us that the Britons had "powerful mastiffs"
for hunting the wild boar, and Manwood in an old _Treatise on Forest
Laws_ (circa 1680) states (p. 60) that the finest mastiffs were bred in
Lincolnshire. Fuller, in his _Worthies of England_ (p. 150) mentions
that a Dutchman (circa 1660) coming to England for sport, spent a whole
season in pursuit of wild game "in Lincolniensi montium tractu," by which
doubtless were intended the wolds. A writer in the _Archaeological
Journal_ (June, 1846) says "the whole country of the Coritani (_i.e._
Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, &c.) was then, and long after, a dense
forest." The name "Coritani