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

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NEWTON STONE REMAINED UNDECIPHERED 25

As a consequence of such irreconcilable attempts at deciphering and translating these inscriptions, and as at the same time their supposed contents were conjectured to be of little or no historical importance or significance, this ancient inscribed monument of such unique importance for Early British History has fallen practically into oblivion.!

1 Thus it is not mentioned in the text of “ The County Histories of Scotland ” for Aberdeenshire, nor in “* Early Britain '’ in The Story of the Nations series, nor in “ Celtic Britain ’’ by Rhys, nor in the modern county and district manuals for Aberdeenshire, except in Ward’s popular “Aberdeen” book where the fact of its existence is noted in four lines

with the remark that the inscription is “‘in Greek—varied and conflicting are the attempted readings.”