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Sir John Evans, who is the authority on the subject, says that 

 some of the coins of the ancient Britons are so distinctly borrowed 

 from Koman originals that the bull upon them can hardly be 

 regarded as representing any particular British breed. In some 

 instances the bull appears to have been derived from that on the 

 copper coinage of Massilia. Sir John Evans, however, points out 

 in his "British Coins.'"' when referring to the Bucranium, that 

 " the occurrence of the bull's head on the coins of so many British 

 princes points to some superstition in connection with it." This 



Fig. 18. — Pugliesi Cattle — Prize Ox. From Days spent on a Doge^s Farm. 



superstition has not, as far as I am aware, come down to us. Sir 

 John Evans adds that Mr. Bateman has also poijited out '• that 

 the not infrequent occurrence of the whole or part of the head of 

 the ox in British barrows " also goes to prove the existence of 

 some peculiar superstition in connection with it. It would be 

 idle to conjecture if they bear any reference to white cattle. 



We have now three breeds to deal with. First, the Celtic Short- 

 horn, whose horns and colour differed materiallv from the white 

 cattle of our parks. Then the Romano-British breed (Fig. 1 7), found 

 only in areas long occupied by Bomans, which is simply the native 



