ABSTRACT
The prehistory of Britain provides a pleasing contrast to that of the province last described. Yet the foundations in both areas were the same. Epipalæolithic remains of Tardenoisian, Maglemose, and Campignian type were widely distributed as we saw in Chapter I. In the flint-using provinces of the east of England the old miners continued to exploit the pits of Grimes Graves and Cissbury into neolithic times and even later. Here as in France the development of the celts showed a typological parallelism with that of Scandinavia again diverging from the latter in the period of the thick-butted form which was unknown to England (Maps I and II). The “neolithic” lake-dwellings of Holdemess and Berkshire, 1 whatever their real age, may be attributed to survivors of the Maglemose fishers and the inhabitants of the “neolithic” huts near Peterborough may belong to the same stock; for, like the descendents of the epipalæolithic tribes who created the culture of the Swedish dwelling-places, they left their dead in the huts, 2 and their pottery was curiously parallel to that of Scandinavia and the Baltic.
