The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

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his kindred, if not remote lineal descendants ; and that the confederacy between the Picts and the Scots, of which we hear so much in the history text-books, was a confederacy in which the Scots were the rulers and leaders in battle, and the Picts the subjects whom they had civilized, more or less. This relationship appears to have continued down to the ninth century A.p. when the Scot “kings of the Picts’ were still using a dialectic form of the old ruling Aryan Catt: title of “ Barat,” like the AryanPhoenician Khatti-Kassi king of our Newton Stone inscription, “ Prat-(gya-) olowonie’’ or “ Part-olon, King of the Scots,” who, I find, also presumably bore the alternative title of “ Cath-laun,”’ as the first traditional king of the Picts (see Appendix II). And, as a fact, the Don Valley was an especial abode of the Picts in prehistoric times. The remains of their subterranean dwellings are especially numerous there.?

This now brings us face to face with the much-vexed and hitherto unsolved question “ Who were the Picts? This question, however, can be better tackled after we have examined through our new lights the traces of the prehistoric aborigines whom Part-olon found in occupation of Treland, which was also a Land of the Picts.

1 Writing on “ Picts’ earth houses ’’ J. L. Burton (Hist. of Scotland, i, 98) says‘ They exist in many places in Scotland, but chiefly they concentrate themselves near Glenkindy and Kildrumony on the upper reaches of the River Don in Aberdeenshire. There they may be found so thickly strewn as to form subterranean villages or even towns. The fields are honeycombed with them.” And cp. J. Stuart on “* Subterranean Habitations in Aberdeenshire.”’ Archeologia Scotica, 1822, ii, 53-8.