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44 PHG:NICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

or peninsula, offlying the mainland marts, as at Tyre, Sidon, Gadesh, St. Michael’s Mount, etc., which the Phcenician sea-merchants were in the habit of selecting, for defensive purposes, as a mercantile seaport, before they established themselves on the mainland. And its name on these coins implies that the Pheenicians at that old city-state here had a mint established for the issue of these coins. That old city is unfortunately now, through subsidence of the coast, submerged in the channel.t On the adjoining mainland, a few miles from Sels-ey, stands the old pre-Roman city-port of Chichester (with an ancient Briton-paved highway to London called “ Stane Street ’’), with prehistoric earthworks and remains of prehistoric villages and Bronze Age implements? implying early habitation. And at Si/-chester to the north of Sels-ey and Chichester on the ancient road from Chichester via Winchester to London, and the pre-Roman capital of the Segonti clan of Britons, and said to have been also called “ Briten-den” or “ Fort of the Britons,’’? with prehistoric and early Iron Age remains,‘ and a temple with a Roman inscription to “ Hercules of the Segonti Britons ”’* —a fact of Phcenician import—there also exists an inscription in Ogam script,* which we have seen is of Phcenician origin or influence.

This discovery that the ancient Phcenician origin of the name of Sels-ey or ‘‘ Island of the Se/s or Cilicians,”’ now suggests that the name “ Sles-wick”’ or “‘ Abode of the Sles,”’ for the home of the Angles in Denmark, presumably also represents this softened dialectic form of the name “ Cilicia ”’ in series with that on the Newton Stone and the Sels-ey coins, and thus appears to indicate the foundation of Sles-wick by a colony of Pheenicians from Cilicia. The “ Silik ”’ form of “ Cilicia ” of the Phcenicians seems also to be probably the source of the ‘‘ Se/g-ove”’ tribal title, which was applied by the Romans to the people of the Galloway

1“ Tt is clear and visible at low water "’ C.B., 1, 268.

2 W.P.E., 248.

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“W.P.E., 248, 270. 5C.B. i, 204. The Segonti Britons are mentioned by Cesar (D.B.G. 5,

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§ Nicholson, Aeltic Researches, 16.