rOOTPMNTS OF VANISHED RACES IN CORNWALL. 287 



aiTOw-lieads of flint and quai'tzite, of various forms. Some are 

 leaf-shaped, some lozenge-sliaped, and some barbed and stemmed. 

 All these varieties were found by Mr. Thurstan Peter on Carn 

 Brea,"*^ and a fine flint arrow-head, stemmed and barbed, has 

 lately been found near Dozmare Pool."^ From the extraordinary 

 superstitions which the Celts connected with these arrow-heads, 

 it is plain that they never used any of them."^ 



The researches of Busk, Thurnam, Huxley and Boyd Daw- 

 kins,^^^ in this country have shown that — omitting the pigmies — 

 one special race was spread all over Great Britain during the 

 latter part of the Neolithic age. The men of this race were of 

 short stature, averaging 5-ft. o-in. in height, and often less. 

 They were characterised by low foreheads, aquiline noses, and 

 long (dolichocephalic) heads. It was their special custom in 

 burial to place the corpse in a contracted position, the body being 

 laid on one side, the hands placed before the face, and the knees 

 drawn up to the chin. These short Neolithic men have been 

 identified"* with the Silures, who inhabited portions of Southern 

 Wales at the time of the Poman occupation of Britain, and who 

 are described by Tacitus in the following words — " The dark 

 complexion of the Silures, their usually curly hair, and the fact 

 that Spain is the opposite shore to them, are evidence that 

 Iberians of a former date crossed over and occupied those 

 parts.""^ A similar short and dark race lived at the same time 

 in Ireland, particularly in the districts west of the Shannon, and 

 its members were called by the Celts, " the diisky children of the 

 night," and " night people," from their swarthy colour, and 



icy. /risk Names and I'laces, by Dr. Joyce, vol. ii, p. 174, quoted by Rev. G. 

 Buick in Transactions of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1895, pp. 41 — 6.^. 

 108. Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy,'^. 503 

 log. Encyclopedia Britannica. Article— " Bow. " 

 110 journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, vol. xiii, 1895, pp. 92 — 103. 



111. I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. H. G. O. Kendall, of St. Mary 

 Magdalene's, Launceston, who found this arrow-head, for this information. 



112. A summary of these superstitions is given by Sir John Evans in his 

 Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain, pp. 363—367. 



113. Early Man in Britain, pp. 309- -310. 



114. This has been admirably done by Professor W. Boyd Dawkins in Cave 

 Hunting, pp. 220 — 230, and Early Man in Britain, pp, 310 — 330. See also Dr. Garson's 

 lecture on Early British Races, delivered before the Royal Institution in 1894. 



115. Agricola, cap. xi. The words of Tacitus are— " Colorati vultus et torti 

 plerumque crines.'' 



