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

SCRIPT ON KESWICK OBSERVATION STONE 227

the Rig,” a title of the Gothic kings, and cognate with the Latin Rex, Regis, and the Sanskrit Raja of the Indo-Aryans, and the “ Ricon "’ of the Briton coins (see later). In searching for possible markings on the stones of this Circle in August, 1919—no markings having been previously reported —TI enlisted the kind co-operation of my friend Dr. Islay Muirhead, in a minute scrutiny of each individual stone, and we started off in opposite directions. Shortly afterwards a shout from my friend that he had noticed some artificial marks on a stone on the western border brought me to the spot, where I recognized that the undoubted markings on this stone (see Fig. 27) resembled generally the Sumerian linear script with which I had become familiar. The marks read literally in Sumerian word-signs “Seeing the Low Sun’ which was presumably “Seeing the Sun on the Horizon,’? and it was written in characters of before 2500 B.C.

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Fic. 27.—Sighting “ Sumerian ’’ Marks on Observation Stone in Keswick Stone Circle. @, Sign on Stone of Keswick Circle, viewed from north. b. Sumerian word-Sign in Script of 3100 B.c.*

cy do. do. 2400 B.c.* d, do. do. 1000 B.C.

The position of this marked or inscribed stone in the Keswick Circle is in the S.W. section of the Circle. It is the stone marked No. 26 in the annexed survey-plan of the Keswick Circle by Dr. W. D. Anderson.‘ The stone is an undressed boulder, like the other stones of the Circle, but is broad and flattish and, unlike most of the other stones of the

1See Fig. 27 b-d. Br. 9403. 2 cp.1B.B.W. 414.

3 Jb. 414, and T.R.C. 243. 7

*C.A.S., XV (New Series) 1914-15, 99.. The Keswick Circle, like many others of the larger Circles, has a radius of about fifty feet. In the Plan the unshaded stones are supposed by Dr. Anderson to indicate sunrise, and the shaded to have been probably used for star observations.”