Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . e to say, this camp is notnoticed either in the Old or the New Statistical Account oflorgan. As regards the people whose memorials in the North of Fifehave thus been described, it is now generally agreed that theliritish Islands have been occupied by seveial races who landedon their shores successively, but at long intervals of the first which left any vestiges of its presence was adark-haired non-Aryan race, akin to the Basque or Iberian peopleof the north-west provinces of Spain. They used implem
Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . e to say, this camp is notnoticed either in the Old or the New Statistical Account oflorgan. As regards the people whose memorials in the North of Fifehave thus been described, it is now generally agreed that theliritish Islands have been occupied by seveial races who landedon their shores successively, but at long intervals of the first which left any vestiges of its presence was adark-haired non-Aryan race, akin to the Basque or Iberian peopleof the north-west provinces of Spain. They used implements andweapons of stone, but none of metal; and buried their dead inthe chambered cairns and the long barrows which have beenfound in many parts of Britain. The people who followedthem were of the Celtic race, and formed that branch of itknown as the Goidelic or Gaelic. It was probably they whointroduced the use of bronze implements,and buried their deadin the round cairns. Thev were followed hv another branch J/ I I i. £. >• ^ 5$. .^,^% ^ ^ ^-^ %\ ^/, .- ^- 3--% 0 Ni ^1. *^ . >\ 5 ^ ^cc£ro7i /y.£.ZhS. lA/, /o o ^o I I I I I Uoo I I I M I I f Scale of Teet- Zv<J PLAN OK CAM! IN ST KORT WOOD. PREHISTORIC 15 of the Celtic race, kindred in blood and language to thepeople of Ganl, and distinctively known as liritons. RothGaels and Rritons arrived before the dawn of history. Aboutthe conunencenient of the Christian era the Iberian race wasstill represented in Rritain by the people of South Walesand of the south-west of England, where and, in the opinionof some, in certain })Jirts also of Ireland and the ScottishHighlands, their descendants may still be recognised. At thesame period the Rritons were in possession of the greater partof our island south of the Firth of Forth and Clyde, and alsoof the central t<irritory north of these estuaries extending tothe river Tay, Their modern representatives are the Cymricpeople of Wales, and, on the Continent, the inhabitants
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