The village community : with special reference to the origin and form of its survivals in Britain . impossible to turn aside the evidence ^ Gentlemans Magazine, 1840, part ii. p. 489. = Ibid., 1865, part ii. p. 716. ^ Jonrnal AnhcToIogical Association, vol. xiii. pp. 104-107, PARALLELS IN BRITAIN AND INDIA. lOI which has been derived from structural formation and position,and from comparative custom; all which proves the existencein Britain of a hill folk who bear a relationship to the Aryanoccupiers of the valleys, exactly similar to that obtaining inIndia, where races have not lost their spe
The village community : with special reference to the origin and form of its survivals in Britain . impossible to turn aside the evidence ^ Gentlemans Magazine, 1840, part ii. p. 489. = Ibid., 1865, part ii. p. 716. ^ Jonrnal AnhcToIogical Association, vol. xiii. pp. 104-107, PARALLELS IN BRITAIN AND INDIA. lOI which has been derived from structural formation and position,and from comparative custom; all which proves the existencein Britain of a hill folk who bear a relationship to the Aryanoccupiers of the valleys, exactly similar to that obtaining inIndia, where races have not lost their special characteristics, ^and are still marked off from each other instead of beingcrushed out by the greater weight of nationality. And whenwe come to test this evidence by the ascertained facts of mansearly life in Britain, we are met by Mr. Boyd Dawkins pre-historic farmer of the Neolithic Age, whose characteristics andposition produced such vast changes in the history of pre-historic man, and whose descendants are to be traced in thesurviving Iberic populations, a remnant of which may still be. HILL CULTIVATION AT BRYNGLAS. found in Britain, and types of which are represented by thehill tribes of Asia. Another very interesting feature of agricultural usage may bementioned here. On the hill of Brynglas, between the ravinesof Cwm Pysgottwr Fach and Cwm Pysgottwr Fawr, the hillrises in a portion of its line to a conical form, and here thecorona is curiously ridged, and looks as if a furrow had beendrawn at right angles across the apex; and then on each sideof it other furrows made broad at the middle and graduallynarrowing as they came near the central one, until at last theyseemed to join each other and be carried continuously around Boyd Dawkins, Early Man in Britain, pp. 247, 369. I02 NON-ARYAN ELEMENTS IN ENGLISH VILLAGE COMMUNITY. the hill-top in an enlarging circle. They are considered to beremains of early ploughing; and Mr. Chidlow has met withother examples of the same k
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