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
198 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
called by modern writers. This strategical and natural line is followed also by the modern engineers of the inter-ocean canal and railways. Midway at the watershed between the Kelvin and Forth Valleys stands ‘‘ Cumbernauld” or “ Cum’er-naud”’ or “ Hold of the Cumbers or Cum’ers”’ or Sumers, near a chief Roman fort on the Wall on the south, with its Camelot of the Arthur legend locally represented at Camelon on the Carron tributary of the Forth, where were the ruins of an ancient building known as “ Arthur's O’on,’’? which place is believed by some writers? to be the historical Camlan, the site of the final battle between the historical Cymric King Arthur and Modred wherein both perished.
The Forth frith is significantly commanded by the island of Inch Keith or ‘Isle of the Keiths or Ca ti,” opposite which rises “‘ Arthur’s Seat ”’ dominating Edinburgh, the “ Dun Eden or Edin” of the Scots ;? and at its base flows the river Esk—the Trojan-Phcenician origin of which name we have seen—and the place-names ‘‘ Pinkie’ and “ Penicuik”’ on that river, with the intervening Borth-wick on or near the Roman Watling Street, also suggest the name “ Punic’ or “‘ Phoenician.”’
Thence, coasting northwards, we pass the Wemyss Caves with prehistoric solar cult gravings (Figs. 60, 68) and St. Andrews to Perth, the ancient Berth* or “City of the Berths or Perths,” which latter dialectic form of Barat is seen to be in series with “ Part-olon’’: and there is another Bertha, with Roman and ancient Briton remains, a few miles distant, at the confluence of the Almond and Tay.°* Significantly also there is a ‘“ Comvie” to the west of Perth, and the great plain at Perth and the adjoining Scone (the old seat of crowning of the Scottish kings) is named “ Gowrie,’ and also with Stone circles in series with the Arthurian ‘Gower’ on the Severn.
» The ruins of “ Arthur’s O’on ’’ (or Oven), so called as long ago as 1293, were demolished long ago by the Carron Iron Foundry to make a dam for their works. The site appears to be visible from Arthur's Seat.
*$.C.P., I4, 161, and Celtic Scotland; and M.E.C., 73. This Camlan is placed in Cornwall by Geoffrey (Hist. Brit., 11, 2.)
*S.C.P., xxii and exlii. CB. 4 i34. 51b., 4, 140.