Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar
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1. ANCIENT BRITAIN AND THE INVASIONS OF JULIUS CAESAR BY T. RICE HOLMES Hon. Litt.D. (Dublin) AUTHOR OF ‘A HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY’ ‘CAESAR’S CONQUEST OF GAUL,’ ETC. ‘There seems no human thought so primitive as to have lost its bearing on our own thought, nor so ancient as to have broken its connection with our own life’.—E. B. Tylor. OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 19072. PREFACE3. CHAPTER I4. CHAPTER II5. CHAPTER III6. CHAPTER IV7. CHAPTER IV (continued 2)8. CHAPTER V9. CHAPTER V (continued 2)10. CHAPTER VI11. CHAPTER VII12. CHAPTER VIII13. THE ETHNOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN14. THE ETHNOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN (continued 2)15. THE NAMES ΠΡΕΤΑΝΙΚΑΙ ΝΗΣΟΙ, BRITANNI AND BRITANNIA16. THE BIRTHDAY OF RELIGION17. DUMBUCK, LANGBANK, DUNBUIE18. INHUMATION AND CREMATION19. SEPULCHRAL POTTERY20. STONEHENGE21. THE CASSITERIDES, ICTIS, AND THE BRITISH TRADE IN TIN22. DENE-HOLES23. THE COAST BETWEEN CALAIS AND THE SOMME IN THE TIME OF CAESAR24. THE CONFIGURATION OF THE COAST OF KENT IN THE TIME OF CAESAR25. PORTUS ITIUS26. THE PLACE OF CAESAR’S LANDING IN BRITAIN27. THE PLACE OF CAESAR’S LANDING IN BRITAIN (continued 2)28. THE CREDIBILITY OF CAESAR’S NARRATIVE OF HIS INVASIONS OF BRITAIN29. THE DISEMBARKATION OF THE ROMANS IN 55 B. C.30. THE SITE OF CAESAR’S CAMP IN 55, AND OF HIS NAVAL CAMP IN 54 B. C.31. THE WAR-CHARIOTS OF THE BRITONS32. THE OPERATIONS OF THE BRITONS DURING THE LAST FEW DAYS OF CAESAR’S FIRST EXPEDITION33. WHERE DID CAESAR ENCOUNTER THE BRITONS ON THE MORNING AFTER HIS SECOND LANDING IN BRITAIN?34. CAESAR’S EARLIER OPERATIONS IN 54 B. C. (B. G., V, 9-11)35. CAESAR’S SECOND COMBAT WITH THE BRITONS IN 54 B. C.36. THE COMBAT BETWEEN TREBONIUS AND THE BRITONS37. WHERE DID CAESAR CROSS THE THAMES?38. CAESAR’S PASSAGE OF THE THAMES39. THE SITE OF CASSIVELLAUNUS’S STRONGHOLD40. DID LONDINIUM EXIST IN CAESAR’S TIME?41. THE JULIAN CALENDAR AND THE CHRONOLOGY OF CAESAR’S INVASIONS OF BRITAIN42. TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTES43. ADDENDA44. INDEX