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BRUTUS CIVILIZES ALBION OR BRITAIN 171

the numerous towers of stone masonry (‘‘Broch’’), suggesting the truly cyclopean masonry of the Hitto-Phcenicians. So late as the fourth century, A.D., Bede writes that a house was built ‘“‘after the manner of the Scots, mot of stones but of hard oak thatched with reeds.” This was the abovementioned Hittite timber house presumably.t_ The masonry foundations of such wooden houses were found at Troy.* Indeed, it seems probable that the artistic, timbered style of old mansions and cottages, especially in the south of Britain, is a survival of the famous timbered Hittite houses of these ancient Britons. The building of fine houses by the Pheenicians in Britain must of itself have been a great uplifting factor in the civilization of the land which hitherto had known only subterranean burrows, as the aborigines would doubtless imitate, more or less, the above-ground houses of their overlords. The pile huts of the few lakedwellings may thus possibly be derived from the HittoPheenician timber-house examples. The common Briton affix for towns of -bury, -boro, -burg (as well as “‘Broch’’) and Sanskrit pura, are now seen to be derived from the Hittite or Catti Buru ‘a Hittite town, citadel or fort.’”’?

In surveying his newly-acquired land of Britain, we are told that Brutus “ formed a design of building a city, and with this view travelled through the land to find out a convenient situation, and came to the Thames.’’ As long before Brutus’ day the land had been in the possession of the Phcenician Morites, who also traded in Amber in the North Sea, the topography of South Britain and its sea-coast was probably more or less known to Brutus and his kinsmen followers. The Chronicle account says he travelled “ through the land’ to the Thames from Totnes. It may be that Brutus, after his signal defeat of a leading party of the “ giant’ Morites at Totnes, as he had such a small land force for an enemy’s country, yet possessing a considerable fleet, coasted along the south coast eastwards along the Channel from Totnes, marching inland to reconnoitre at

1 Diodorus Siculus writes that ‘‘the cottages of the Britons were of wood thatched with straw.” (Geog. 4,197).

> In the 5th City, in Early Bronze Age. S.J. 573 and 710.

> Cp. M.D. 186.