Re: evidence for early Phoenician presence in Britain?

Hi, Michael!

<any linguistic evidence for possible Phoenician loanwords in
Brittonic to add support to this?>

What's Brittonic?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Smith"
<mytoyneighborhood@...> wrote:

>
> Hi, I found this in my Grandma's 1933 elementary school
> textbook "Foreign Lands and Peoples" (California State Series).
> page 50 reads:
>
> "A block of tin tells a tale. A few years ago some men were
> digging a foundation for a building in a city on the south coast of
> England. The earth was very soft, so they dug down and down to

find

> a firm foundation. After going down for many feet, they came to
> something that seemed like a floor of strong oak planks. It was

the

> deck of an old ship. The place where the city stood had once been

a

> harbor. The ship had sunk in the harbor, and the harbor had been
> filled by mud brought by streams. The men cut through the deck of
> the sunken ship and found that the ship was still loaded with

blocks

> of tin.
> The writing on the blocks of tin in the old ship buried beneath
> the English city showed that it was a Phoenician ship."
>
> Does anyone know any further information about this find? Is there
> any linguistic evidence for possible Phoenician loanwords in
> Brittonic to add support to this?
>
> -Michael