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

PIETS PREHISTORIC RIVER-BED TYPE t21

the Dravids or Doms—just as he had already found it in the dark aborigines of Australia,t one of the lowest of the most primitive savage races of the present day. And his inferences have been fully justified. |

This widespread prevalence of the river-bed type of men in the Stone Age is confirmed and considerably extended backwards by Sir Arthur Keith in his classic “‘ Antiquity of Man,” recording mostly fresh discoveries and observations of hisown. He establishes the fact that this type of river-bed skull existed over Britain as far back in the Old Stone Age as about 25,000 years ago, in the Langwith Cave in Derbyshire ;* and at a somewhat later period in the Oban Cave in Scotland with Azilian (or Mentone) culture of the Old Stone Age, and at Aberavon, east of Swansea, and in Kent’s Cavern at Torquay. In the Neolithic age of about eight thousand years agoit isfound in the Tilbury man of the Thames Valley, who resembled the race of equal age found at Vend-rest (a name suggestive of the “ Vend ” title of the Picts), about sixty miles east of Paris. It is also found in the same Neolithic Period in the great megalithic tomb at Coldrum in the Medway Valley of the Kent Downs, near the famous Kit’s Coty cromlech, where these long-headed people were still of relatively small stature—the men averaging 5 feet 4 inches and the women 5 feet, that is about 3 inches below the modern British average, though the brain had now reached practically the modern standard with a skull width of 77°9 per cent. of the length.* And significantly the large Neolithic village of p7t-dwellings, with rude pottery and finelyworked flint implements in the neighbourhood at “‘/ght-ham,”’ seems to preserve in the latter name “ [ght-ham "’ or ‘‘ Hamlet of the [ght,” the later shortened title of the Picts, in series with the southern dialectic form of Pliny’s “‘ Vectis ’’ for the Isle of “* Wight,’ and “ Jetis,”’ the old Irish name for the English Channel, and the Eddic Veig, Vige, Vit and Vikti forms of the eponym for “ Pict.’"* This modern name thus appears to preserve the old designation of that

‘LHC., 130. 7 IX.A.M., 89, etc. *K.A.M., 22. * See before.