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ANCIENT BRITON CHARIOTS HITTITE 145

Czesar also records the high military efficiency of the Briton troops: “the legionary soldiers were not a fit match for such an enemy,” and “‘ the enemy’s horse and warchariots . . . inspired terror into the (Roman) cavalry.”

And here it is significant to note that the dreaded warchariots of the Briton cavalry (which were peculiar to the Britons and unfamiliar to the Romans), and of which Cassivellaunus, the “ Catti,’’ alone retained 4,000 after he disbanded his army? were of the same type as those of ihe Hittites or Catti, as described and sculptured by Ramses II. (c. 1295 B.c.) at the Battle of Kadesh, a port of the Hitto-Phcenicians® (see Fig. 23).

Fic. 23.—Hitto-Pheenician War-Chariot as source of Briton WarChariots. (From reliefs of Abydos, after Rosellini, 103.)

This unexpected formidable opposition by the civilized Britons, despite the secessions from Cassivelaunus, contrived by the invidious diplomacy of Czsar, explains why the latter so promptly abandoned his second intended conquest of Britain and retired speedily to Gaul within a few weeks, without

1E.C.B. v, 6, 2 D.B.G. 4.33.2.

> The popular notion that the Briton War Chariots were armed with scythes has no historical or archeological foundation. Neither Cesar nor Tacitus mentions such an appendage; nor is such figured on Briton Chariots on coins, and no such scythes exist on War-Chariots which have been found interred with Briton chiefs in their graves, a /a Tut-ankh-amen