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cists in their burial-mounds are constructed of hewn stone neatly 

 placed together, and covered with flat worked stone ; and though 

 large enough to contain one or more bodies, we often find in 

 them an urn of burnt bones only, as at Chedworth. 



Stonehenge, and the dressed stone monoliths, may be due to 

 this race ; as also many earth-works ; and the Bell, Saucer, Twin, 

 with other tumuli on the Wiltshire downs. Dr. Thurnam states 

 that they are a short-headed race ; and that the chippings of the 

 stone, and bronze implements used in rearing Stonehenge have 

 been discovered in the earth-works around it. The race is 

 supposed to have been Kymric ; and the Welsh names of places 

 seem due to them. 



Gaelic was the earliest known language of Western Europe. 

 Manx, Irish, and Highland Scotch, all belong to it ; while the 

 Armorican, Bas Breton, and Welsh, belong to the Kymric. The 

 Rev. Thos. Price, in his work on the inhabitants of Britain, states 

 that the migrations to the British Isles, pre\dous to the Eoman 

 invasion, were Welsh-speaking. 



The migration to these islands of the Belgse, a Welsh-speaking 

 people, is said to have occurred a few centuries — four or five — 

 before the Roman invasion. They used bronze and iron tools ; 

 and in common with other Aryan races, they cultivated the land, 

 had domestic animals, and were able to reduce Iron ore to 

 malleable Iron. There are no certain traces of the use of mortar 

 in the construction of their buildings, or of the existence of sheep 

 in these islands, until after the Roman invasion. 



The examination of Belu's Nap proves conclusively that there 

 were two distinct races existing in that neighbourhood at the 

 time ; the large jaw and thigh bones, and the infant frontal bones 

 without any trace of sagittal suture, belonged to a narrow long- 

 headed race, which may have occupied other districts also previous 

 to the introduction of the use of metals by the Kymric short- 

 headed race. 

 The skeletons of the early "tump" barrows may be easily 



