128' 



Athenaeus and Dioscorides, describe as made of barley and used instead of wine, 

 under the name of curmi, in Irish, cuirm, and in Welsh, cwrw — beer. 



It is worthy of remark that the earliest coins of our country were modelled 

 after Greek coins made during the time of Pytheas, although struck long after his 

 period. (Evans' "Coins of the ancient Britons," p. 24). The earliest being 

 assigned by Mr. Evans, pp. 25, 26, to a date between B.o. 150 and 200. 



Aristotle, B.C. 345, mentions the Britannic Isles, Albion and lerne, which 

 lie beyond the Celti. 



Polybius, B.C. 160, mentions the Britannic Isles, and the working of tin. 

 {Roman Britain, Scarth, p. 2). 



Another Greek, Posidonius, with whom Cicero studied at Rhodes, visited 

 Belerion, as he called the district in Cornwall where tin was found. He "is 

 supposed to have been the authority of Diodorus Siculus (Bibl. Hist., V. 21, 22) 

 for stating that the inhabitants of Britain lived in mean dwellings, made, for 

 the most part, of reeds or wood, and that harvest with them meant cutting the 

 ears of com ofif and storing them in pits underground, whence were fetched 

 day by day to be dressed for food, what had been longest in keeping," (Celtic 

 Britain, p. 7), a method understood in the western Islands of Scotland even in the 

 last century, the corn being prepared with the aid of a flame, "dressed, winnowed, 

 ground, and baked within an hour after reaping," id., p. 7. 



" Strabo describes the Cassiterides, which lie near the ocean towards the 

 north of the Haven Artabi, and says that formerly the Phoenicians alone carried 

 on the traffic in tin, but the Romans afterwards obtained a knowledge of the 

 locality and engaged in the traffic," (Roman Britain, Scarth). 



Diodorus Siculus and Strabo both flourished temp. Augustus. 



The invasion of Julius Ca-sar, B.C. 55, gives us a reliable account of Britain 

 within the easy reach of scholars, and succeeding accounts of Roman writers are 

 taken from him. It may be here mentioned that an interesting reference to the 

 Cassiterides or Tin Islands, the trade with the Phoenicians, and other matters of 

 antiquity, will be found in the pages of " The Astronomy of the Ancients," by Sir 

 George Cornewall Lewis, published by Parker, West Strand, 1867. 



Although there appears to be no special mention of Thornbury Camp in the 

 History of the Civil Wars, yet the fact that two cannon balls weighing respectively 

 17ilbs. and 121b. had been found within the camp grounds, at present to be seen 

 in the shop of the village blacksmith, and tliat Mr. Piper purchased the handle of 

 a Scotch claymore sword which had been found in the neighbourhood, lead to the 

 suggestion that Thornbury had been at some recent time occupied, possibly by the 

 Scottish army under the General Leslie, Earl of Leven. We know that this army 

 crossed the Severn at Bewdley, was at Tenbury on July 20th, 1645, that Canon 

 Frome was assaulted and taken within a few days, and the brave Governor was 

 buried at Ashperton on July 25th. WelVs Civil War in Herefordshire, Vol. II., 

 pp. 209, 210. Thornbury Camp is situated a little more than one mile westward 

 of the direct route southwards from Tenbury through Bromyard to Canon Frome. 



As we have no more to say concerning Thornbury Camp beyond the fact 

 that under the title of "Wall Hills, Bromyard," it was selected as one of the sites 



