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posed to be identical with the Celtae of the Romans. 

 They were tall, muscular, with broader and shorter 

 heads, fair complexion, and light-coloured hair. They 

 buried their dead in round barrows or mounds, and 

 seem at a very early period to have possessed bronze, 

 and so to have introduced what has been termed 

 the bronze age into Britain. At the time of the 

 Roman invasion, however, they already possessed 

 iron weapons. These people were Aryan in speech, 

 allied to the Gauls and Belgse, and the ancestors 

 of the so-called Celtic populations of the British 

 Islands. 



CROMLECH AT FONTANACCIA, CORSICA (after De Mortillet) 



