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
218 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
suggest that theiy builders were engaged in exploiting the mineral wealth of the various countries.’ He proves conclusively by a mass of concrete facts that these megaliths all the world over are located in the immediate neighbourhood of ancient mine workings for tin, copper, lead and gold or in the area of the pearl and amber trade. His details, geographic and geological, regarding the correlation of these monuments to mines in England and Wales, are especially decisive of the fact that their builders were miners for metals and especially tin, and not agricultural colonists; for many of the monuments with remains of prehistoric villages and mines are located on barren mountain tracts, where only the old mine workings could have attracted these people to settle on such spots? (see Sketch Map). And he concludes, in illustration of what was happening at the other mines with their megaliths, that ‘ the men who washed the gold of Dartmoor were also extracting the tin and taking it back to the Eastern Mediterranean in order to make bronze.’’*
Strange to say, notwithstanding the clear indications that this seafaring people who erected these megalith monuments in Britain came from the Eastern Mediterranean, and were solely engaged in mining operations, expressly for tin, were Pheenicians, yet Mr. Perry, in this article, does not even suggest the obvious inference that they were Phoenicians, nor even once mentions that name. There was, however, no other ancient seagoing trading people of the Early Bronze Age who explored the outer seas, came from the Eastern Mediterranean, had a monopoly of the bronze trade of the Ancient World, and who worked in prehistoric times the tin-mines and gravels in Cornwall and Devon.
1P.M.M. (A.) ror5, 60, No. 1. Regarding India, for instance, in the Hyderabad State, the Inspector of Mines, Major Munn, found that Sfove Circles and dolmens were invariably situated close to mines of gold, copper and iron. anchester Memoirs, 1921, 64, No. 5.
2 Where no metalliferous strata are found on the sites of megaliths, as at Stonehenge, etc., in Wilts and in Devon, there are found old flint-factories for the tools needed by the miners to extract the ores in Cornwall, etc. P.M.M. (B.) 11-18. Surface tin, now exhausted, formerly occurred more widely in the drift and gravels, as tin and gold are in the same geological formations, so that it may have occurred on surface near Stonehenge, etc. Cesar says that the tin supply came from the Midlands, (D.B.C., 3, 5) where no trace of tin now exists.
2 P.M.M. (B.), p. 7.