The Welsh people; chapters on their origin, history, laws, language, literature and . - in our own THE WELSH PEOPLE CHAPTER I. THE ETHNOLOGY OF ANCIENT WALES. In this chapter we propose to state briefly what com-parative philology and ethnology have to say as to theraces of ancient Britain, especially those to be found inwhat is now Wales, and what admixture has taken placethere in later times. Archaeologists who have studied the contents of theancient barrows or burial mounds of this country find thatthe human remains which they detect in them belong tomore than one ra
The Welsh people; chapters on their origin, history, laws, language, literature and . - in our own THE WELSH PEOPLE CHAPTER I. THE ETHNOLOGY OF ANCIENT WALES. In this chapter we propose to state briefly what com-parative philology and ethnology have to say as to theraces of ancient Britain, especially those to be found inwhat is now Wales, and what admixture has taken placethere in later times. Archaeologists who have studied the contents of theancient barrows or burial mounds of this country find thatthe human remains which they detect in them belong tomore than one race. The barrows of the earliest date arelong, and yield long skulls, while the round barrows, whichare later, show the remains of a short-skulled people ; butthe round barrows sometimes contain long skulls as wellas short ones, a fact which suggests that the conquerorsbegan early to intermarry with the conquered at the same order of questions from the point ofview of language, one may say, that the first race as to whosepresence in this country in ancient times there can be nomanner of doubt is the
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