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In a series of essays and books (Solstice Trackways & Ancient Pathways) the local researcher and archivist Frank Parker has suggested that the megaliths, stone crosses and ancient tracks found in Derbyshire were the work of a Bronze Age migration of Phoenician and Egyptian tribes. For a variety of reasons which I shall explain in due course I am inclined to agree with many of his conclusions and theories. The predominant interest for these tribes was the abundance of metal ores (copper, lead and silver) found in the region. These mercantile tribes found sources of tin, lead, copper and gold in other parts of the British Isles namely Cornwall, S. Ireland, Wales and some parts of Scotland. Over a long period of time they were able to influence significantly the culture, economy, landscape and religion of the indigenous peoples. Traces of their activity and occupation of these regions remain as subtle vestiges in the language, traditions, myths and legends and their true origins lost in the mists of time. The Phoenicians were a mercantile, seafaring branch of the Canaanites and Philistines who had long established themselves in the region now known to us as Lebanon around 3,000 BC. The ancient Hebrews came into close contact with the Phoenicians and Canaanites who greatly influenced their own Judaic cosmology and beliefs. The Phoenicians inhabited the numerous coastal regions, set up convenient ports or urban centres and went on to establish trading colonies on the neighbouring islands of Tyre, and Aradus and also in the coastal districts of Ugarit, (Ras Shamra), Antaradus (Tartus), Marathus (Amrit), Simyra, Botrys, Byblos, Sidon, and Akko. Although ostensibly small, independent kingdoms they were over time under the direct influence and protection of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians and Hittites who became dependent on them for raw materials.
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