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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PREHISTORIC STONE CIRCLES IN BriTAtN, DISCLOSED AS SoLAR OBSERVATORIES ERECTED BY MORITE Brito-PHENICIANS AND THEIR DATE

Disclosing also Method of “ Sighting” the Circles

«« The hoary rocks of giant size That o’er the land in Circles rise, Of which tradition may not tell, Fit circles for the wizard’s spell.” Matcoim, ‘“ Autumn Blast.” ** These lonely Columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials which the wizard Time Had raised to count his ages by.”Moore- Tue great ‘“ prehistoric’ Stone Circles of gigantic unhewn boulders, dolmens (or ‘“table-stones’’) and monoliths, sometimes called ‘‘ Catt Stanes,”’ still standing in weird majesty over many parts of the British Isles, also now appear to attest their Phoenician origin. The mysterious race who erected these cyclopean monuments, wholly forgotten and unknown, now appears from the new evidence to have been the earlier wave of immigrant mining merchant Phcenician Barats, or “Catti’’ Phoenicians of the Muru, Mer or Martu clan—the ‘“‘ Amorite Giants’”’ of the Old Testament tradition; and from whom it would seem that Albion obtained its earliest name (according to the First Welsh Triad) of “ Clas Myrd-in (or Merddin)” or “ Diggings of the Myrd.”» (On Morites in Britain probably about 2800 B.c., see Appendix VII., pp 413-5.)

1 This Early Phoenician title of Muru, Mer, Marutu or Martu, meaning “Of the Western Sea (or Sea of the Setting Sun)”, which now seems obviously the Phoenician source of the names ‘ Mawuret-ania” or “ Mor-occo’’ with its teeming megaliths, and of ‘ Mor-bihan” (or “Little Mor’’) in Brittany, with its Sun- cult megaliths, is also found in several of the old mining and trading centres of the earlier Phenicians in

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