Note 112a — Chapter VIII · THE ARCHÆOLOGY OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD.

In Norwich one of the principal thoroughfares is named “Rampant Horse Street.” To this same superstition also we owe the huge figures of the white horse cut in the turf at Bratton Castle and at Oldbury Camp, both in Wiltshire. Tacitus speaks of “immolati diis abscissum equi caput.”