4/8 The Museum Gazette 



TWO THOUSAND YEARS B.C. IN BRITAIN. 



[Avebury. Arbor Low (Stone Circle) were already there.] 

 Neolithic Times. Picts (Iberians) in possession of Britain. 

 Copper and tin worked by the Picts (Iberians). 



Bronze made about this time. No cremation of the dead. Long 

 Stonehenge constructed. [barrows. 



Population Iberian = Pictish (non-Aryan). 

 Corn cultivated and cattle kept. 



Ornamentation of. pottery in straight lines only. 

 Bronze now in full use in Britain. 



The bairows may contain drinking-cups and other vessels, but no 



urns. The barrows were long and they contain long skulls. 

 Population still Iberian, i.e. , Picts. 



Beginning of the use of Bronze in Scandinavia. 



Population still Iberian or Pictish in Britain. 

 Religion Druidic. 



Advent of an Aryan population (Goidels or Gauls). 



Earliest Cremations. Urns deposited in barrows. 



The barrows are round, and they contain broad skulls. 



Use of iron began in Britain, and that of bronze began to decline. 



Pottery sometimes ornamented by curves or representations of 

 animals. 



At this time the Solent was narrower and shallower than at present. 

 At low tide waggons could cross (Lymington to Yarmouth). 



Iron now in general use in Britain. 



Brythonic Kelts invaded Yorkshire (Gallo-Brythons), gave the name 

 "Briton.''* Gallic Kelts pushed by Brythonic Kelts to the 

 West and into Ireland. 



Pytheas of Marseilles supposed to have visited Britain. 



Time of Aristotle and Alexander (330 B.C.). 



The Belgse (half Teutonic) invaded Southern Britain. 



Timaeus, Sicilian historian, mentioned Keltic tin, probably refer- 

 ring to British. The Dover sea route to Britain not yet 



Tin trade languishing (Polybius, 150 B.C.). [developed. 



British tin trade ceased. Posidonius travelled in Britain (90 B.C.). 



Caesar landed. Cassivelaunus died, 47 B.C. ; ruled north of Thames. 



Tasciovannus reigned about 30 B.C. His mint was at St. Albans 

 (Verulam). Cunabellinus reigned 5 B.C. (Shakespeare's Cym- 

 beline). Strabo, whose statements apply to this period, men- 

 tions wheat, cattle, gold, silver, iron, skins, slaves and dogs as 

 exports from Britain. 



