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has taken place, and there were probably lateral ramparts 

 which have disappeared down the slope. The larger camp, 

 enclosing 20 acres, lies wholly to the east of the earlier fortifi- 

 cation. Its greatest strength is concentrated at its eastern 

 end, where it is approached from level ground, and where the 

 defences of the main entrance w r ere most elaborate. It should 

 be remembered that the object of defenders was not to 

 conceal themselves in trenches, but to obtain a vantage ground 

 from which to hurl missiles, and if possible to attack the right 

 side of assailants unprotected by the shield. If we ask who 

 made these camps, there are only two possible claimants for 

 the achievement. They w r ere certainly occupied by the men 

 of the Bronze Age, Celts belonging to the Aryan Family, who 

 possibly enlarged and strengthened their defences. But it 

 seems equally clear that they were originally made by the men 

 of the New Stone Age, that wonderful race, to whom the 

 w r orldowes its megalithic monuments and its " magic/' which 

 may be traced as far afield as America, the islands of the 

 Pacific Ocean, and Australia. They are sometimes called the 

 Mediterranean race, and they certainly made that sea a 

 Neolithic lake much as the Romans afterwards made it a 

 Roman lake. Their modern descendants are to be found 

 among the Basques and the Finns, and the most convenient 

 name by which to call them is the term Iberian. Some 

 evidence for saying that the earliest makers of these forts 

 were Iberians was furnished by Professor Boyd Dawkins when 

 he addressed the Club at Hod Hill, on September 20th, 1898.* 

 He connected the Hod Hill camp with the long line of 

 similar camps which extends from the Mendips to the 

 Sussex Downs, and with the lake dwellings at Glastonbury, 

 all of which were inhabited down to the Iron Age, and 

 refers to the pit dwellings that are still to be traced 

 within the ramparts. Then, speaking I suppose of Hod Hill, 

 he says: " In one of the huts we have been so fortunate as to 

 find a perfect skeleton. It belongs to the slightly long-headed 



* Ibid, Vol. XIX, pp. Ixxx, &c. 



