Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Yorkshire in Olden Times
At the earliest period of which we have any record in ancient history, what is now the County of York was occupied by a tribe of British Celts, Whom Tacitus calls Brig' antes, a Cymric name which appears to have been derived from the Gaelic braz'glze, high land. They were not confined to Yorkshire, however, but inhabited all the north of Eng land, from sea to sea, and from the Humber to the Tweed. Traces of their occupation of the county have been found in recent times, all over the Wolds, in excavations and graves, from which rude pottery and their ?int weapons and implements have frequently been exhumed. Nothing is known of the history of this primitive race of Yorkshire men prior to the time, nearly a century after the southern and central portions of England had been subdued by the Romans, when the imperial legions marched in, under Ostorious Scapula, under the pretext of repressing internal disorder. The Brigantes were not2 yorkshire IN olden times.
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