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BARAT NAMES IN CUMBRIA & SCOTLAND 197
Westmorland : Barton in Ambleside, with prehistoric remains, Barion-on-Street, on old Roman road, near Haringham (3, 329). Burton (3, 412). Burton in Kendal, with ancient remains (3, 405). Brathay River with Broughton, near Ambleside, with Bronze Age remains.* Cumberland : Broughton, on Derwent, near Camer-ton,
The Clyde Valley was another great artery through which Early Briton Civilization flowed into the remoter limbs of North Britain, with Dun-Barton or “ Fort of the Bartons or Britons’? as a distributing centre. At the time of Ptolemy the upper estuary of the Clyde was occupied by the ‘ Gad-enoi,” that is, ‘‘ The people of the Gad or Pheenicians ”; and we shall see later the numerous “ Gad’ and “ Catti”’ names in this area.
Below Dun-Barton are the ‘“‘ Cumbre Isles” with the beautiful island of Avran or ‘‘ Land of the Arya or Aryans,” with its highest mountain peak Goat-Fell or ‘“‘ Mount of the Goats or Goths” and stone-circles. Arran was one of the seven sacred burial places of the Irish-Scots, as recorded in the Ogam Chronicle of Kerry; and it was called by the Norsemen, in the ninth century A.D., “ Kumrey-ar”’ or ““ (Abode) of the Cumbers, 7.e., Sumers.’’*
Above Dun-Barton we have Part-ick, or ‘“ The Wick (or town) of the Parts,’ at the highest navigable point of the river (until deepened a few miles further to Glasgow in modern times) at the mouth of the Kelvin rivulet ; thence along the latter valley across the narrow waist of Scotland to the Forth on the East Coast girdled by the “ Picts’ Wall,” or “ Grim’s Dyke,’ an earthen rampart, presumably originally erected by the Britons as a defence against the Northern Picts and Huns, and afterwards utilized and strengthened by Antoninus, after whom it is now generally
1 W.P.E., 106,
= The aboriginal Celtic name for “‘ Dun-Barton ”’ was and is ‘ Al-Clutha ” or “ Rock of the Clyde ’’—"‘‘ Clutha "’ being ‘‘ Clyde,” the ‘‘ Clothi”’ of the Romans.
*“ Kumra’’ is Eddic for Cumber-land. P