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

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BRONZE INTRODUCED BY MORITE PHGNICIANS 183

The Bronze Age was clearly introduced into Britain by the earlier Phcenician Mor-ite or Amor-ite exploiters of the jin mines many centuries before the arrival of Brutus, and probably before 2800 B.c.t_ On account of the preciousness of Bronze, however, it would appear that the Early Phoenician miners themselves used bronze sparingly and prohibited its use by the natives, and, as it will be seen later, they employed stone tools in working the ores for export to their bronze factories in the East. Brutus appears to have popularized the use of bronze, as indicated by its more frequent occurrence as tools. Metal axes would presumably be required by these Aryans to clear the forests for settlement and agriculture.* And he probably introduced iron and steel into Britain, as both of these metals are referred to by Homer as used by Trojan heroes, and the use of iron is also referred to by his contemporary, Hesiod.

The Religion which the Phcenicians disembarked and transplanted in Britain, as they did in their other colonies, was the exalted monotheistic religion with the idea of One God of the Universe, symbolized by his chief visible luminary the Sun, as we shall see in a later chapter on Pheenician ‘“‘ Bel’’ worship in Early Britain, as attested by its early monuments other than the Newton Stone. The uplifting effect of this lofty religion upon the aborigines must have been enormous, sunk as the jatter were in the degrading matriarchal cults of serpent demons of Death and Darkness, demanding human and other bloody sacrifices.

The Phoenician ‘‘ Sun-worship ’’ was latterly, as we have seen, associated with the idealized Aryan Barat tutelary angel, Britannia. It was, perhaps, this divinity who is referred to as “ Diana”’ in the Chronicles as inspiring Brutus to the conquest of Britain. That latter name was possibly substituted by the later editors to adapt it to the well-known analogous tutelary of the later classic writers. In this regard it is significant, in connection with the traditional.

1 Sir J. Evans divided the Bronze Age in Britain into rst Stage, 140c—

1150 B.c. (flat daggers); 2nd Stage, 1150-900 B.c. (stout daggers), and 3rd Stage, 900-400 B.C. * Bronze sickles were found in Aberdeen, Perth and Sutherland shires,

E.B1., 199-200—where finds in the South of England are also noted.