Note 20 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES

As to corroboration, Mr Archer undertook 'to produce corroborative evidence from other sources';20 but this at once dwindled down to one line—'tending in the same direction'21— from Benoît de St Maur, who does not even mention a palisade.22 There is therefore, on his own showing, not a shred of corroborative evidence.