182 Mr. H. C. Collyer’s Notes on the 
Tree,” with two dry water-holes near it. This and the clump by 
‘«* Friday’s Church’’ are the only trees of any sort on that spur 
of the downs. 
It has been remarked how closely the hawthorn is associated 
with the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons, as they used it to 
enclose their households ; hence its name (Anglo-Saxon “ haigh”’) 
is the root-word from which is derived ‘‘ham,”’ the termination 
of so many English place-names, whence ‘‘ hame”’ and ‘‘ home.” 
The district in question is an unusually secluded one, there- 
fore tradition has been very persistent, and there may be some 
grounds for the tradition as to the name of this place. As an 
instance of how such a story may linger: at a village a few 
miles from there, called Washington, a vague story had always 
been current amongst the villagers of a great treasure having 
been buried in the neighbourhood ; and about thirty years ago, 
in ploughing land from which an old barn had been cleared 
away, there was found a large earthen vessel containing three 
thousand silver coins of the reigns of Edward the Confessor and 
Harold, allin good preservation ; many of these were sent to the 
British Museum. 
All through England the oldest surviving traditions refer 
entirely either to the period of the Danish invasions or to the 
handiwork of the Anglo-Saxons, and, although a neighbourhood 
may abound with Celtic or Roman remains, no traditions exist 
with regard to them except to refer them to supernatural agency, 
or to give them names ascribing them to a later date, as in the 
case of Cissbury (which is but a short distance from the barrows 
in question), and of the various Roman stations and roads. The 
names of some of the rivers can be traced to Celtic origin, and 
the term generally used for the hill valleys, i.e. ‘‘coomb,”’ is 
distinctly Welsh (‘‘cwm”’) with a different spelling. 
So secluded is the district in question even now that there are 
no roads to some of the farmhouses, they being reached by a 
trackway over the downs. One of the farms was during the 
Middle Ages a lepers’ settlement, and the track leading to it is 
still called the ‘‘Lepers’ Way,” and an old cottage at the farm 
is pointed out as one of their dwellings. In the village church 
is a lepers’ window, through which the sacrament was handed 
to them. It seems surprising that leprosy should have existed 
in this country to the extent indicated by these traditions. 
The villagers have an idea that a golden calf is buried some- 
where on the hills. What can be the basis of this tradition it 
is difficult to guess; but when the members of this Club were 
down there the natives all thought we were looking for that 
golden calf, and made enquiries as to whether it had been found. 
The ridge of hill on which the barrows are situated is divided 
from its continuing ridge by some remarkable banks of earth of 
