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described in the first report, hariier, redder, and devoid of 

 decoration. 



THE FAUNA. 



The human remains being comparatively few, it was no hard 

 task to compare the skull fragments of different levels. But to 

 have done the same with the animal bones would not only have 

 been an almost interminable labour, but could not have given 

 results in any degree commensurate with the trouble. All the 

 deposits cut through belonged to one geological period, that 

 which is still with us, and which will probably yet run for thou- 

 sands of years ; and when the oldest of these deposits was formed, 

 man had already brought under his dominion the present ordinary 

 domesticated animals. It was not to be expected, then, that the 

 remains of the fauna, wild or domestic, would exhibit much 

 change. So the inability to separate them in accordance to their 

 several deposits, is, perhaps, no great cause for regret. 



All the animal bones found during the systematic excavation, 

 except the very small broken pieces which obviously would have 

 been of no use in the work of identification, were duly submitted 

 to Professor Boyd Dawkins, who kindly examined and identified 

 them. This must have been a most tedious work, for there were 

 many hundreds of these bones, all wrapped in bags labelled 

 according to the foot-strips from which their contents were 

 derived. The following is a complete list of the mammalian 

 fauna, deducted from his long and detailed catalogue :* — 



British short-horned ox. Wolf. 



Urus. Dog. 



Sheep. Fox. 



Goat. Badger. 



Horse. Hedgehog. 



Hog. Water-rat {Amcola amphibia). 



Red-deer. Hare. 



Roe- deer. 



* All of these were also found during the work of 1888, and in addition, 

 the rabbit and the wild cat. 



