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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ftenedform. Under the year 1088 the same Chronicle speaks ofthe men of Scrobscyre, and we probably owe to thesame influence the form Salop, which is still used as adesignation both of the shire and the principal town.Shrewsbury is the capital of Shropshire, or the county ofSalop. When, however, we undertake to trace the story ofShropshire, we must go back to a period far antecedentto Saxon times. It had its part in invasions long beforeJutes and Angles were heard of—at a period when theweapons of warfare were of stone and bronze rather than Shropshire 279 of iron. No traces of Palaeolithic man have been foundin the county, but there are fairly numerous remains of theNeolithic period, and of the Bronze and Early Iron Age,some of which are to be seen in the museum at Shrews-bury. As might be expected from the difference inphysical character, there was at a very early period adifference between the civilization of the level countrynorth of the Severn, and that of the hill country which
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Shrewsbury. (oid tngraving. forms the southern half of the county. The northernpart was more easily subdued than the south, and so feltthe influence of advancing culture sooner—a state ofthings which is evidenced by the fact that almost, if notquite, all the prehistoric implements of bronze have beenfound north of the river, while those of stone have beenfound south of it. Anyone familiar with the peasantry of Shropshirewill easily recognize in them the three earliest types which 28o Shropshire prevailed in Britain. There are specimens of the darktype, which we speak of as Iberian—short of stature, withdark hair and eyes and lengthened skulls—and there arestill more numerous specimens of the Celtic races whichfollowed—tall and brawny, with red hair and roundedskulls. These Celts, who appear to have come fromCentral Europe, arrived in Britain in two migrations.First came the Goiedels, or Gaels, and when these haddriven the Ibernian race westward, they themselves weredisturbed b

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