Chapter 1

PRE-ROMAN BRITAIN

§ A.--Palaeolithic Age--Extinct fauna--River-bed men--Flint implements--Burnt stones--Worked bones--Glacial climate ... _p_. 25

§ B.--Neolithic Age--"Ugrians"--Polished flints--Jadite--Gold ornaments--Cromlechs--Forts--Bronze Age--Copper and tin--Stonehenge ... _p_. 28

§ C.--Aryan immigrants--Gael and Briton--Earliest classical nomenclature--British Isles--Albion--Ierne--Cassiterides--Phoenician tin trade _viâ_ Cadiz ... _p_. 31

§ D.--Discoveries of Pytheas--Greek tin trade _viâ_ Marseilles--Trade routes--Ingots--Coracles--Earliest British coins--Lead-mining ... _p_. 34

§ E.--Pytheas trustworthy--His notes on Britain--Agricultural tribes--Barns--Manures--Dene Holes--Mead--Beer--Parched corn--Pottery--Mill-stones--Villages--Cattle--Pastoral tribes--Savage tribes--Cannibalism--Polyandry--Beasts of chase--Forest trees--British clothing and arms--Sussex iron ... _p_. 39

§ F.--Celtic types--"Roy" and "Dhu"--Gael--Silurians--Loegrians--Basque peoples--Shifting of clans--Constitutional disturbances--Monarchy --Oligarchy--Demagogues--First inscribed coins ... _p_. 50

§ G.--Clans at Julian invasion--Permanent natural boundaries--Population Celtic settlements--"Duns"--Maiden Castle ... _p_. 54

§ H.--Religious state of Britain--Illustrated by Hindooism--Totemists--Polytheists--Druids--Bards--Seers--Druidic Deities--Mistletoe--Sacred herbs--"Ovum Anguinum"--Suppression of Druidism--Druidism and Christianity _p_. 62