ANCIENT BRITONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 January 1935, Page 5

ANCIENT BRITONS

WERE NOT SAVAGES. Dr. Mortimer Wheeler, of the Britlsh Museum, and students who are assisting him. have discovered the secret of Dorsetshire’s “Maiden Castle,” near Dorchester. It was a Roman stronghold—“ Mound of Strength.” It was the greatest and most complicated fortification of its kind. Dr. Wheeler says: “There is no parallel to the Mound of Strength anywhere. The Romans occupied this ancient British earthwork camp, and there erected a

temple, which I have brought to light. When they went away the Britons returned. over threw the temple of the alien religion, and turned it into basement flats of the variety known to Science as ‘pits.’ but self-contained! I do not know definitely when this great camp was built. There has long lingered in Wessex a tradition that Mai-Dun was once inhabited by a giant race.” These ancient Britons lived a comparatively civilised life at MaiDim. Mrs Ancient Briton sometimes occupied a basement flat with a neat little kitchenette. She kept her pots [and pans as tidily as any model housewife to-day. She did not eat raw un- ' cooked food like a barbarian, but prepared her husband a dinner over a wood fire.