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

170 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

is preserved in a relatively pure form in “‘ Dun-Barton ” or “ Fort of the Bartons ’’—the “ Dun Breatan”’ of the Gaelic Celts. In the Welsh Triads also, where Brutus is called “ Prydain, son of Aedd the Great,’’ it is stated that he named the island after himself ‘‘ Isle of Prydain’’ (Inis Prydain). And we shall see that Brutus and his Barats and their descendants covered the country with place, river and mountain names transplanted from their ancestral homeland in Asia Minor and Syria-Pheenicia. And similarly, Brutus’ associate, the Phcenician Duke Corineus, who was probably related to Corunna in Spain with its legends of Hercules and the Phcenicians,' is traditionally recorded to have given his name to Cornwall.

The Higher Aryan Civilization which Brutus now introduced and propagated throughout a great part of Britain, began with the establishment of Agriculture, which we have found was originated by the Aryans and made by them the basis of their civilization. The Chronicles tell us that Brutus and his Britons set at once “ to till the ground and build houses.”’

The building of houses, we have seen, was such a speciality of the Hitto-Phcenicians that it gave them, from their timberhouses, the title of ‘‘ Khilani,” ‘“‘Gelouni” or ‘Gi-oln,” which was borne also by the Phcenician Barat Part-olon. The perishability of timber-houses would account for the fact that there seem to be few extant remains of ancient Briton buildings of this early period, except stone foundations, which may possibly be as early, and some of the “ Cliff castles "’ (the marvellously well selected strategic sites and defensive military details of which excited the admiration of General Pitt-Rivers, the great archeologist) and some of

2“ Corunna,” on the Iberian coast near Finisterre, is intimately connected with the Phcenicians and their demi-god Hercules. At the mouth of the bay stands a remarkable beacon to which a vast antiquity is assigned. Local tradition ascribes it to Hercules and others to the Phoenicians. Laborde discovered an inscription near the base which stated that it was constructed by Caius Severus Lupus and dedicated to Mars. But this was probably reconstruction. Now Corunna is the Tor Breogan of Irish bardic writers who state that Breogan was the son of Bratha [i.e.,“ Barat” or ‘‘ Brath ’’], a leading chief of the Iberian Scots, who erected this tower here after his own name, and that from the top of the town his son /// saw the shores of Erin on a clear day. See B.O.1., 27.