CATTI NAMES IN DEVON & CORNWALL 207 Devon : Cornwall: Catte-down Cave (preserving an old place- or hill-name "Catte-down "), near Plymouth, with Stone Age remains.1 Cad-bury or Cad-bery, south-west of Tiverton, with prehistoric and Roman remains (154)". Cad-bury at Ottery (1, 35) and on N. Dart moor. Chett-le, with prehistoric barrows. Cud-lip, on Tavy, on Dartmoor, above the Gid-leigh, on Dartmoor, near Cromlech at Chittle-hampton at S. Moulton, on Taw (1, 32). Sid-bury, with prehistoric settlements." Cudder Point, in Penzance Bay, south of St. Cad-son-bury, with prehistoric earthworks, Gotha Castle, near Phoebe's Point, St. Anstell, with earthworks. God-olcan, modern God-olphan, near Land's End, famous for its tin mines; and the lordship of same has arms with two-headed spread eagle (1, 4) of Hitto-Sumerians. Sith-ney parish, including Helston (1, 16). Quethi-ock, near Prideaux, with prehistoric earthworks." Northwards from "New Troy" or London these old "Catti" names radiate through the adjoining counties to the Midlands and are prolonged into Northumbria. The later old home-kingdom of the paramount Briton king, Cassivellaunus, or Caswallon or Cadwallon, the "Land of the Catyeuchlani" of Ptolemy, is rich in the Cat, Cass, and Gad Hitto-Phoenician ethnic titles for place and river names, just, as we have seen, it was in regard to the Barat series. This central Briton kingdom extended from the north bank 1H.A.B., 60. 2 Ib., 229. 3 W.P.E., 157. • Ib., 226. " Ib., 226. • Ib., 226. • Ib., 157. • Ib., 227. • Ib., 230. of the Thames, from the western border of New Troy or London, northwards to the Wash and Humber; and thus included the modern counties of Middlesex (West), Herts, Bucks, Oxford, Bedford, Northampton, Huntingdon, Cambridge, Nottingham, Rutland, Leicester and Lincoln. (For details see Appendix III.) Similarly, from Somerset in the Severn Valley, we find, a series of the early "Catti” "Catti" names radiates through Cambria or Wales to some extent, but more freely through Cumbria to Dun Barton (or "Fort of the Britons') with its Cumbræ Isles. The very free distribution of this Catti and Barat title in Somerset or "Seat of the Somers" and in Gloster, with its relative absence in Wales and mainly confined there to the Severn coast, suggests that Somerset and Gloster, with the northern bank of the Severn estuary, from Caerleon or Isca on the Usk to Gower, formed the real Cymry Land; and that the title Cymri or Cambria for Wales and the Welsh people was presumably a later designation, after the non-Aryan Welsh Silures and cognate Pictish tribes had obtained their Aryan "Cymry" speech from their Aryan Catti Barat rulers and civilizing colonists of Somerset and Gloster in the Severn Valley. (The detailed distribution of the "Catti" names in this area is given in Appendix III.) Similarly also, from Dun-Barton and the Frith of Clyde, at the top of which Ptolemy significantly located the “ Gadeni" tribe (i.e., the Gad or Phoenicians) we have Catti or Gad names in Arran (or “Land of the Arri or Arya-ns”), the "Kumr Isle" of the Norse-with its prehistoric Stone Circles and barrows on the flanks of Goat Fell, the ancient Kil-Michael and Cata-col with the legend of an ancient Gothic sea-king slain by the aboriginal chief Fion-gal, the Fein. And in the adjoining Bute is Kil-Chattan or "Church of Chattan," with its prehistoric standing stones, facing the Cumbræ Isles. In Glasgow an ancient boundary 1 Arran (called by the Norse Kumr ey-ar or "Isle of the Kumr or Cymri " and Sudr-eyiar or Southern Isle ") is anciently spelt Aran, Arane, Aren, as well as Arran-see J. McArthur, Antiq. of Arran. 2 New Statistical Account of Scotland, Arran." CATTI AND CASSI PLACE NAMES IN BRITAIN 209 1 " " in the records for "Redding the Marches was Cayttis' dyke." This series of Catți or Gad names also stretches, I find, in series with the Barat names across the narrow waist of Scotland to the Forth to Hadd-ing-ton and Perth, and onwards north along the East Coast to the Don Valley of our Newton Stone and to Caith-ness or anciently Cat-ness (or Nose of the Caiths or Cats) and to Shet-land (or Land of the Shets or Ceti), where, as we have seen, I find actual inscriptional Ogam evidence for the use of Xattui or Khattui as the "prehistoric" name of the old capital of "Shet-land," also spelt "Zet-land" and "Het-land." (For details of this series of Khatti names see Appendix III.) The "Cassi" series of titles for place-names, on the other hand, is necessarily much more limited, as the Cassi or Kassi were a dynastic clan of the Barat Catti ruling tribe who followed the religious reform of their ancestral priest-king Kasi in adhering to the purer monotheistic Sun-worship of the founder of the First Dynasty of Aryan kings. We have already seen that the first Phoenicians who worked the tin mines in the Cassi-terides of Cornwall, as well as Brutus himself, were probably of the Cassi clan of the Catti or Hitt-ites, as Part-olon also was. 3 Besides the occurrence of this eponymic title in "Cassiterides"-a name which seems repeated in several of the inland place-names here appended I find the following ancient place-names have presumably this "Cassi" element in divers dialectic forms : Herts: Bedford: Cassio-bury, seat of modern Earls of Essex, near Verulam, the capital of Cassi-vellaunus, with many Briton coins in district." Cashio Hundred," extending through Herts from south to north, and including Cassiobury. Keysoe, near old camp and Cadbury Lion and 1 Glasgow Herald, 24th April, 1923. 2 Gazetteer Scot. 2,715. Details in Aryan Origin of the Phoenicians. It occurs in Cornwall, Wilts, etc., as seen in the list, in places not associated with the tradition of any Roman castra or camp. E.B.C. Verulam, 119, 251, 253, 257, etc., and St. Albans, 234, etc. Lincoln: Leicester: Bucks: Middlesex : Kent: Hants: Wilts: Devon : Caus-enn or Gausennæ of Romans (2, 353). Chis-wick on Thames. It was presumably Cos-ham, at neck of Portsmouth Island. Casterly Camp," north of Great Bedwyn, Caws-and Beacon, with early stone cist." Chysoyster, with prehistoric village." Goostrey, with barrows." Cheshire : Cumberland: Gos-forth on Irth River, with pre-Christian Kes-wick, with Stone Circle and old copper mines (3, 422, 435), under Sca-Fell. Northumberland: Gos-forth, or Ges-forth, near Roman Vindo Haddington: bala (Rutchester) (3, 513). Gosse-ford, near Wallsend (3, 495). Caistron, near Hepple, with prehistoric earth- Gos-ford House, opposite Inch Keith CATTI & CASSI NAMES ON BRITON COINS 211 In Ireland, also, there is a considerable series of these old "Catti" and "Cassi" place-names in old sites, which will now be obvious to the reader. or We now see more clearly than before why the pre-Roman Briton kings, inheriting such a celebrated "Catti" and "Cassi❞ ancestry-an eastern branch of the latter royal clan having given to Babylonia its famous "Cassi" "Kassite" Dynasty for a period of over six centuries, from about 1800 B.C. to 1170 B.C., as well as our King Part-olon, the "Kazzi" or "Qass" of the Newton Stone monument in Scotland-should have proudly stamped these treasured ancestral titles on their coins in Early Britain. Of these pre-Roman Briton coins, in gold, electrum, tin or or bronze, bearing, as we shall see later, solar symbols of the Sun, Sun-Cross, Sun-Horse and the Sun-Eagle or "Phoenix -as the Aryan-Cassi-Phoenicians were pre eminently Sun-worshippers-we have already seen examples of some of those stamped with the titles "Catti" and Cas(si)" (see Figs. 3 and 11, pp. 6 and 48). The name "Catti" on these coins is conjectured by the chief authority on Early British coins to be the personal name of several otherwise unknown Briton " princes," who, he supposes, bore the same name; whilst, on the contrary, an earlier writer, the Rev. Beale Poste, supposed that it was not a personal name, but the title of an ancient British "province, state or community." My new historical evidence now discloses that the latter view was more in keeping with the freshly elicited facts. That title "Catti" is now seen to designate the dynastic tribe of ruling Briton kings; and to be the literal equivalent of "Khatti" or "Hitt-ite," which was the racial title of the Phoenician Barat Aryans who worked the tin mines in Cornwall, and whose descendants or kinsmen established themselves in the interior in South Britain as Catti kings, and afterwards extended their civilizing and Aryanizing rule throughout the British Isles. The "Cassi " or " Cas" stamped coins (see Fig. II, p. 48) are the same general type as the "Catti," with the same 'P.B.C., 283. Sir J. Evans, E.C.B., 141. |