FOOTPRINTS OF VANISHED RACES IN CORNWALL. 289 



Etruscans were, in later times, the most civilized portion of the 

 Ivernian race. 



"We have now to trace this Ivernian race into Cornwall. Mr. 

 Elton,^^* following Mr. Skene, thinks that the tin-workers of the 

 Scilly Islands, who traded to Sj^ain, were of Ivernian race, and 

 the name Scilly is considered by some to be a variation of the 

 word Silures. Professor Ehys has shown^^^ that traces of the 

 Ivernians are found in Cornwall, although he shows that these 

 indications are but slight. The Rev. S. Baring-Gould speaks^^" 

 of the " Dusky Ivernians," as having preceded the Graelic Celts 

 in Cornwall, and he is inclined to place tivo dusky races of 

 Neolithic Turanians before the arrival of the Celts,^"'^ apparently 

 considering the Dolmen Builders to be — as I think — a separate 

 Neolithic race. Mr. W. C. Borlase^-^ mentions the occurrence of 

 the dark type in Cornwall, and compares it with the similar dark 

 type anciently existing in Ireland and Scotland. Dr. John Beddoe 

 has declared^'^^ that there are Mongolian elements in the population 

 of Cornwall, and he gives illustrations of the occurrence of 

 the Iberian race in different parts of Cornwall. We meet here 

 and there, in the western part of our countj^, with swarthy faces 

 and dark black hair, which may belong to descendants of the 

 ancient Ivernian people. 



We have found in Cornwall separate skulls in our alluvial 

 deposits and forest beds, and for which a great antiquity has been 

 claimed, but it is very difficult to ascertain their precise age. I 

 do not think that the Carnon skull which was found in the 

 stream-works of that valley, has an antiquity beyond the Celtic 

 period. A skeleton was found in these stream- works on the tin 

 ground, and a figure of it has been given by Mr. W. J. Hen- 

 wood, ^^'^ but I do not think that it can claim a great antiquity? 

 although it was found at a depth of 22 feet in the alluvium. 



124. Origins of EiujUih His'ory, p. 758. 



)25. In the map contained in his work, Cfltic Briiaiii Although using the 

 name Ivernian, Professor Rhys fully accepts the Iberian theory. 



126. Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwatl, 1898, and Ibid, vol. xiii, 1898' 

 358, 359- 



127. Ibid, p. 37S. 



128. Memoirs of tlw. Anthropological Society, vol. ii, 1865-6, pp. 351, 355. 



129. The Age of the Saints, by Mr. W. C. Borlase, pp. xvi., xvii. 



130. Journal of tlie Royal Instilution of Cornwall, vol, iv 1S73, P- 106. 



