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
228 PHCENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS
Circle, it could never have been a standing pillar-stone. It is what I call, in view of the evidence to be seen presently, “ The Observation Table-Stone,”’ and it bears the inscribed signs on its flattish top. It appears to be in its original site, but swung round or fallen somewhat forward to the S.E., presumably through undermining (possibly in search for buried treasure, as has happened with similar stones elsewhere). Or it may have been deliberately swung slightly out of its original position and tilted to its present position by the later erectors of the inner quadrangle or so-called “temple ’’ (see Plan), which is clearly a late structure and presumably Druidical, erected after the site was abandoned by the “ Sun-worshippers”’ (probably after their conversion to Christianity) and analogous to the quasi-Druidical building which, we shall see, was erected within the Stonehenge Circle. For this marked stone of the Keswick Circle is now orientated towards the northern border of the inner “temple,” and in a line which has no solar or astronomical significance whatsoever. The engraved signs, despite the weathering of ages, are distinct though somewhat shallow, the lines being about a quarter of an inch deep and about a third of an inch wide. And these signs on this stone in Cumber-land or the “Land of the Cymrs or Cumbers”’ (or Sumers) may be read as the Sumerian word-sign for “Seeing the Sunrise.’’?
The manner in which the Sunrise was observed by the early astronomers who erected this Keswick Stone Circle in “ prehistoric ” times is now clearly disclosed by the location, orientation and inscription on this Observation Stone, bearing these markings. A reference to the plan on p. 229 will show that these engraved marks on this stone (No. 26), forming an Observation Table-Stone, namely, the ‘‘ diamond” and
‘The “ diamond ’’ portion of the sign is not a true rectangle (and this also is the case in the Sumerian script) but has a width of 4,8; inches from N. to S. and 34 inches from E. to W., with sides about 3 inches in length.
* The marking on this Keswick stone is substantially identical with the Sumerian compound word-sign, which is a picture-sign for Eye (or Si, thus disclosing Sumerian origin of our English word “ see ’’ (and the Sun, in which the Sun is for lapidary purposes represented as a “ diamond ” shape. This compound sign is given the value of “’ Rising Sun’ (B.B.\W., 2, 215); and thus meaning literally “ Seeing the Rising Sun,”’