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

“ BRITISH CELTS” ARE NON-ARYAN PICTS 141

Iberian stock has been mixed more or less on the East Coast and Midlands with the non-Aryan round-headed and broad-browed, fair ‘“‘ Alpine "’ or Slav or “‘ Hun” invaders from the time of the beaker-using men of the Late Stone Age, about 2000 B.c. onwards ;: and later over all the British Isles, they have been mixed more or less with their Aryan rulers and civilizers, the tall, long-headed, broad-browed, fair ‘“‘ Northern’ invaders, the Britons and Scots, properly so-called, with their later kindred Anglo-Saxons, Norse and Normans. As a result of this partial intermixing during many centuries (which is discussed in a later chapter on the mixing of the races) there have arisen several intermediate composite types. Many of the “ British Celts’’ thus now possess a considerable strain of Aryan blood, manifesting itself in physical traits and especially in a lighter colour of the hair and eyes, whilst fondly idealizing their Celtic ancestry into a sentimental cult. But the major portion of the population, not only in the modern “ Celtic "’ areas, but all over the British Isles generally retains appreciably a preponderating Pictish type.

Thus, in regard to the civilization of the British Isles, we . find that the modern theory that it was the “ British Celts ”’ who first introduced the Aryan language and civilization into Britain is merely a survival of an unfounded assumption by later philologists, which assumption rested on the further unfounded assumption that the “ British Celts” were originally Aryans in Race.

We are now in a position to take up, on much clearer ground than has hitherto been possible for previous enquirers, the great and hitherto unsolved question as to how and when the Aryan language and civilization were first imtroduced into Britain, and by what racial agency.

1 These round-head ‘* beaker’ men, as found in Aberdeen stone cists, were of small stature, averaging 5 feet 4 inches, with broad, short faces and widish noses and muscular build, 7.8.8.69. Butin the South, on the East

Coast of England, they averaged 5 feet 8-9 inches, with cranial index of 80 to 84, with broad brows and roundish faces. A. Keith, J.R.A./., 1915.