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

402 PH@NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

In Scotland we find the following series of these ‘“ Catti’’ Place, River and Ethnic names :—

Roxburgh : Cat-rail or “‘ Fenced Ditch of the Catti,’’ an earthwork rampart-trench extending from near the Pentlands to the Cheviots (4, 36), and separating Berwick from Strath-Clyde(?), and apparently following in part Watling Street.

Ged-worth,? the modern Jed-burgh, on Watling Street. Gade River, the modern Jed.?

Cadd-roun Burn, head-water of Liddel at Catrail, with lower down ‘* Arthur's Seat ’’ near Bewcastle Fells. Gatt-on-side, on Tweed, near Melrose, adjoining Watling

Street and Cat-rail(?). Whitt-on, adjoining Jed-burgh.

Selkirk : Cat-rail, as above.

Cat-slack, at site of Yarrow vale, inscribed monolith of about fifth century a.p., to a “Ceti’’ Chief, near Catrail and adjoining Caj-car-wood.

Peebles : Cat-rail, as above. Cade-muir, with four ancient forts. Lanark : “Gad-eni,” tribe of Ptolemy, who occupied upper

estuary of Clyde to ahout Dun Barton.

Cadi-cu, the modern ‘‘ Cadzow,’’* ancient name for Hamilton, the ducal capital of Clydesdale on the Clyde, above Glasgow.

Cat Castle, at Stonehouse, near Watling Street.

Coat-bridge.

Kitt-ock, rivulet in Clydesdale.

Shotts.

Passing from the Clyde Valley across the narrow waist of Scotland to the Forth, through the Gad-eni territory of Ptolemy and thence along the East Coast by Perth, the Don Valley to Caithness and S/ef-land, we find the following series of ‘‘ Catti’’ names :—

Lanark : Cadd-er, on the Picts’ (or Antonine’s) Wall. Cath-cart, a suburb of Glasgow (4, 85). Mid-Lothian : Cat-cune castle, at Borth-wick on Esk, on Watling Street. Cat-stane, at Kirkliston, with tumulus and early Latin inscription.

Keith (Inch-), also Inch Ked! or “ Isle of the Keiths,” in Forth, opposite Edinburgh or Dun-Edin, with Arthur’s Seat.

Keith (Dal-), formerly “ Dal-Chat’’ or “ Dale of the Chats or Keiths,’’ on Esk, opposite Inchkeith and south of Pinkie (Phocenice ?) on Watling Street.

Seton (Brit-), east of Edinburgh, with Gos-ford, not far

distant.

Stirling : Goodie River, central tributary of Forth, and formerly probably in centre of Firth.

Perth : Coitter-town, with standing stone.®

Sid-Law Hills, from Perth, bounding Gowrie.

1 Jedburgh was called “ Ged-worth "in Eogrid’s time, 830-845 A.D. ; Gorder Magazine, 1922, 126,

? Its old name of “‘ Gade” suggested to Baxter that that name was derived from the Gadeni tribe recorded ‘by Ptolemy. Baxter wrote ‘‘ Quid enim Gadeni nisi ad Gadam amnem zeniti See R, Fergusson, River Names of Europe, 108.

* Or “ Town of the Cad or Phoenicians ’’ (see text).

‘Skene, op. cst., 416. SF. R. Coles, Proc. Soc. Antig. Scot., 1907-8, to2.