[2395] Archaeol. Journal, xlvii, 1890, p. 232.
[2396] Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd ser., xviii, 1900, pp. 119-20.
[2397] Archaeol. Journal, xlvii, 1890, pp. 230-3; xlix, 1892, p. 178; Corpus Inscr. Lat., vii, 13.
[2398] Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd ser., xviii, 1900, p. 120.
[2399] Ib., p. 122.
[2400] Ib., p. 118.
[2401] Ib. What puzzles me is how Professor Haverfield reconciles his view that in the third century ‘Cornish tin began to take its place as an article of commerce in Roman Britain’ (Mélanges Boissier, 1903, p. 251) with his own suggestion (ib., p. 250) that ‘either the tin ores had never been so rich as fancy painted, or the accessible deposits had been worked out [two centuries earlier], or ... Spanish competition had ousted British tin’. Evidently the accessible deposits had not been worked out; and British tin must have had superabundant vitality if it reasserted itself two centuries after it had been ousted.
[2402] Hist. Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients, pp. 451-5.
[2403] Report of ... the Brit. Association, 1896, p. 910.
[2404] Anc. Bronze Implements, p. 419. Cf. F. J. Haverfield in Mélanges Boissier, p. 249, n. 1. Mr. Reginald Smith (Guide to the Ant. of the Early Iron Age [Brit. Museum], p. 137) suggests, with the approval of Mr. C. H. Read, that a bronze statuette, found near Aust-on-Severn, may have been deposited ‘by Phoenician traders to our shores’. Cf. Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd ser., xx, 1904-5, p. 192.