cians were located before about 2800 B.C.),1 also called themselves by the "Khatti" or "Hitt-ite" title and also by the early form of "Barat" in their own still extant monuments and documents, and dated back to about 3100 B.C." The Phoenician Khatti Barat ancestry of the Britons and Scots, and of the pre-Roman Briton" Catti" kings was then elicited and established by conclusive historical evidence in due course. The "Anglo-Saxons" also were disclosed, as we shall see, to be a later branchlet of the Phoenician-Britons, which separated after the latter had established themselves in Britain. This identity of the Aryans with the Khatti or Hitt-ites was still further confirmed and more firmly established by further positive and cumulative evidence. In 1907, at the old Hittite capital, Boghaz Koi in Cappadocia, Winckler discovered the original treaty of about 1400 B.C. between the Khatti or Hittites and their kinsmen neighbours on the east, in Ancient Persia, the Mita-ni' (who, I had found, were the ancient Medes, who also were famous Aryans and called themselves "Arriya"). In this treaty they invoked the actual Aryan gods of the Vedas of the Indian branch of the Aryans and by their Vedic names. Significantly the first god invoked is the Vedic Sun-god Mitra (i.e. the Mithra" of the Greco-Romans), as some of the later Aryans made separate gods out of different titles of the Father God. His name is followed by In-da-ra, that is the solar Indra or "Almighty," the principal deity of the Indo-Aryan Vedic scriptures, and as instanced in the verses cited in the heading, the especial god of the Barats or Brihats (or "Brits") and of their Panch or Phoenic-ian clan-and his image and title are represented on Ancient Briton monuments and coins. But even this striking historical evidence of itself did not induce either the Assyriologists or the Vedic scholars to seriously entertain the probability 1 Herodotus i, 1,; ii, 44; vii, 89. Some evidence of this is given in these pages; and the full details with proofs in my Aryan Origin of the Phænicians. H. Winckler Mittil. d. Deutsch. Orient-Gesellschaft No. 35, Dec. 1907, pp. 30f; and review by H. G. Jacobi Jour. Roy. Asiatic Soc., 1909, 721f. EARLY BRITONS WERE ARYAN PHOENICIANS 15 that the Hittites were Aryans, obsessed with the preconceived notion that the Hittites, whatever their affinities might be, were certainly not Aryans. The present work is the first instalment of the results disclosed by the use of my new-found keys to the Lost History of the Aryan Race and their authorship of the World's Higher Civilization. It offers the results in regard to the lost history of our own Aryan ancestors in Britain; and discloses them, the Early Britons and Scots and Anglo-Saxons, to have been a leading branch of the foremost world-pioneers of Civilization, the Aryan-Phoenicians. FIG. 5A.-Briton prehistoric monument to Bel at With Hitto-Phoenician Sun Crosses, etc. II THE UNDECIPHERED PHOENICIAN INSCRIPTIONS OF ABOUT 400 B.C. IN BRITAIN AND SITE "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, 1912.1 THIS 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 Cæsar's journal, is now disclosed herein to have been erected by an Aryan-Phoenician 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 AngloSaxons. The monument now stands at Newton House in the upper valley of the Don in Aberdeenshire (see sketch-map, p.19), 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 Phoenician document yet reported in Britain. Although tradition has credited the Phoenicians 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. PHOENICIAN INSCRIPTIONS IN BRITAIN 17 traces of the extensive workings of these mines in "prehistoric" times are still abundantly visible near Penzance and elsewhere in The Duchy-many of which I have personally examined several times-no specific Phoenician inscription seems hitherto to have been reported either in Cornwall or elsewhere in the British Isles. Yet this unique ancient historical monument does not appear to be under the protection of the Ancient Monuments Act. The following description of this rude stone pillar and its site and environments embodies the results of my personal examination of the monument itself and its neighbourhood, supplemented by local enquiry and the chief published references to the stone. Its former, and presumably its original site where it stood before its removal to its present site about 1836, was recorded from personal knowledge by the famous archæologist Prof. J. Stuart as being at (see sketch-map) : "a spot surrounded by a wood, close to the present toll-gate of Shevack, about a mile south of the House of Newton. From its proximity to the Inn and Farm of Pitmachie it has occasionally been called the Pitmachie Stone. When the ground on which it stood was in course of being trenched several graves were discovered on a sandy ridge near the stone graves 1 made in hard gravel without any appearance of flags at sides or elsewhere." This information was supplemented by the late Lord Aberdeen, who wrote that the Stone originally stood on an open moor a few paces distant from the high road near Pitmachie turnpike of the Great Northern Road recently opened, the old road having been on the opposite side of the Gady."2 The spot, thus indicated (see sketch-map) by these authentic contemporary records, stands in the heart of a romantic meadow encircled by picturesque hills and dominated by the beetling crags of Mt. Bennachie, crowned with the ruins of a prehistoric fort, rising on the west. It is within the angle of the old moorland meadow (now part of the richly cultivated Garrioch vale of old Pict-land) between the Shevack stream and the Gadie rivulet, which latter formerly before the accumulation of silt, may have joined hereabouts with the Shevack and Urie tributaries of the Don. This "Gadie" name for this vigorous rivulet, half encircling the Bennachie range, and in the direct line of the lower Don Valley, is highly suggestive of Phoenician influence, as we shall find that the Phoenicians usually spelt their tribal name of "Khatti” or “Catti as "Gad," and were in the habit not infrequently of calling the rivers at their settlements" Gadi," or "Gad-es," or "Kad-esh." This romantic Gadie glen of the Don, sequestered among the green groves and overhung by the purple slopes of the bold Bennachie, was presumably of ancient repute, as it is celebrated in a well-known old Scottish song with a haunting plaintive melody of ancient anonymous origin and the refrain : "O gin I were where Gadie rins, At the back o' Ben-nach-ie." In its stanzas, given by Dr. John Park over a century ago, it appears almost as if the Gadie contained a sacred ancient site of burial : O gin I were where Gadie rins Mang fragrant heaths and yellow whins, O aince, aince mair, where Gadie rins, And this vale, we shall find, was probably the actual site of the traditional sacred cemetery of the prehistoric royal erector of this monument that is celebrated in the early chronicles of the Irish Scots,1 The prehistoric antiquity of this district of the Don Valley as a centre of Stone Age habitation and of Early Civilization for the north of Britain is evidenced by its richness in 1 BOI., 81f. |