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unaccompanied with such implements, is no indication of a 

 pre-Keltic settlement, since the use of these huts prevailed among 

 the Kelts themselves. I am not aware that remains of the stone 

 age have been found in any of the camps now imder consideration, 

 except Solsbury. As to the age of this fortification a remarkable 

 difference of opinion has existed. In Gough's edition of Camden's 

 Britannia, it is said to be of Saxon origin. Others have supposed 

 it was a Danish camp, basing the theory on the neighbouring 

 name of Swainswick, as derived from Sweyn, King of Denmark. 

 Again it has been considered as the first of a chain of Koman 

 forts, and Mr. Scarth says, " it seems to have been occupied by 

 that people." (Somersetshire Arch, and Nat. Hist., Proceedings, 

 vol. vi.,p. 121.) Mr. Earle, in his " Bath, Ancient and Modern," 

 considers it to have been the site of a well-inhabited and populous 

 British city, and that Bath was colonised by a migration from 

 it. The discovery of flint implements carries us back yet further, 

 and places the first occupation of this hill in the neolithic 

 age, if not earlier. But it does not follow that the fortifica- 

 tions of which we see the remains were contemporary with 

 its first occupation, as a place of residence or of refuge. 

 The natural advantages of Solsbury as a post of defence 

 (especially when much of the country which is now dry land was 

 under water, the tide coming up beyond Saltford, and marshes 

 and floods extending the waters of the river), would immediately 

 attract the attention of any dwellers in the district, and would be 

 made available by successive populations. If there was here an 

 Iberic town, this was probably succeeded by a Keltic one ; the 

 remains now existing have all the character of Keltic fortifications 

 and whatever previous defences existed, the Kelts probably so 

 extended and improved them as to render it a very strong place. 

 The Romans might afterwards occupy it as a fort, though its 

 position on the top of a hiU, and the absence of any Eoman coins 

 or inscribed stones and of rectangular fortifications, show that it 

 was not one of their permanent stations. It is remarkable that, 



