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PHNICIAN RACTAL ELEMENT IN BRITAIN 365

The Early Aryan Gothic invaders and civilizers are seen to have been essentially a race of highly-civilized ruling aristocrats; and relatively few in numbers in proportion to the aboriginal population of the country. In physical type they were of the Aryan race, that is to say, tall-statured, fair-complexioned, with blue or greyish eyes, broad-browed and Jong-headed, as opposed to the small-statured, darkcomplexioned, narrow-browed, and long-headed Pictish “Iberian” aborigines of the Stone Age, and the fringe of somewhat superior-cultured Stone Age race of medium-sized, fair-complexioned, broad-browed, but round-headed Slavonic or Germanic Huns, the beakerusing men of the “ Round Barrows,’ who came from the Baltic and Germany, who settled along the East Coast and in the Midlands; and whose descendants still exist there to a considerable extent at the present day in relatively pure form. It is presumably the bones of these Early Aryan Gothic invaders which are found in the Stone Cists (as at Keiss) and in the Dolmens, and also to some extent in the Long Barrow graves, though in the latter alongside are some skulls of the narrow-browed and small-statured aboriginal type, with cephalic indices so low as 73°73, suggesting some racial intermixture even at that early period.* But it seems probable that the bodies of the Aryans were largely cremated, as Fire was a heavenly vehicle in the Sun-cult, and there are references in the Gothic Eddas, as well as in Homer, in regard to the Trojans, to the committing the bodies of heroes to the funeral pyre.

Anterior to the arrival of Brutus about 1103 B.c. the CattiPhoenician occupation of Albion appears to have been only very partial and sporadic with little intermixing with the aborigines. These early “ prehistoric’ exploiters of the Tin, Copper, Gold and Lead mines, and Jet and Amber

This “ Germanic” round-headed type is still marked along the East

Coast. Thus, whereas Glasgow has only 2 per cent. of round-heads, Edinburgh has 25 per cent. (Sir A. Keith, in address to Universities Club

from Glasgow Herald, Nov. 25, 1921).

* Prof. Parsons has recently shown that the Long Barrow race differs little in their skull form from the modern average inhabitants of London. —J-R.A-.I., 1921, 55, etc. Most of the Long Barrow skulls figured by him have relatively broad brows; cp. Figs. on pp. 63 and 64 ih.