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

I]

THE UNDECIPHERED PHG:NICIAN INSCRIPTIONS OF ABOUT 400 B.C, IN BRITAIN AND SITE OF THE MONUMENT

“That exhaustive British sense and perseverance, so whimsical in its choice of objects, which leaves its own Stonehenge or Choir Gaur to the rabbits, whilst it opens pyramids and uncovers Nineveh.’—EMERSON on “ Stonehenge.”

“We have no first-hand notice of Britannia until Julius Caesar landed there in 55 B.c.’—Sir H. E. MAXWELL, Ig12.4

TuHIs uniquely important and hitherto undeciphered inscribed ancient monument (see Frontispiece), bearing a “first-hand notice of Britannia’’ dating to about 400 B.c., and thus three and a half centuries earlier than Czsar’s journal, is now disclosed herein to have been erected by an Aryan-Pheenician Briton king ; and it offers us a convenient starting point for our fresh exploration for the lost history of our civilized ancestors—the Britons, Scots and AngioSaxons. The monument now stands at Newton House in the upper valley of the Don in Aberdeenshire (see sketch-map, p.1I9), whence it derives its common modern name of *‘ The Newton Stone.’ It has been known since 1803, by the opening up of a new road in its neighbourhood, as an antiquarian curiosity which has baffled all attempts of the leading experts at the decipherment and translation of its inscriptions.

It appears to be the first Phcenician document yet reported in Britain. Although tradition has credited the Phcenicians with long commercial and industrial intercourse with Cornwall in exploiting its tin and copper mines, and numerous

1 Early Chronicles relating to Scotland, 1912, I. 16