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nally with four sharply incised lines ; another is rope-like, and at 

 its junction with the vessel the shoulder is fluted. 



Food Refuse. 



A large addition has been made to the food refuse, consisting 

 of animals' teeth, including 6 boars' tusks, and a considerable 

 quantity of bones, nearly all of them broken, presumably in order 

 to extract the marrow. These were submitted to Dr Thomas H. 

 Bryce, Queen Margaret College, University of Glasgow, for 

 identification, and the following is his report : — 



Report on Bones from Lochrutton Crannog. 



The bones forwarded to me for identification by James 

 Barbour, Esq., from Lochrutton Crannog are, unfortunately, in 

 a very fragmentary condition. The majority are bones of cattle, 

 but of which species it is impossible to say in the absence of 

 any sufficiently distinctive parts. The other animals are repre- 

 sented by a smaller number of parts, as noted below : — 



1 . Ox (Bos ?) teeth and fragments of various bones. 



2. Sheep (Ovis aries, variety domestica), various bones. 



3. Pig (Sus scrofa domestica), incisor tooth and canine of a 



boar. 



4. Red deer (Cervus elaphus), metacarpus and various frag- 



ments. 



5. Roe deer (Carpreolus caprea), portion of a single cannon 



bone. 



6. Horse (Equus caballus), two molar teeth and one metacarpal 



bone. 



7. Fish (?), fragment of a single vertebra. 



In answer to inquiries regarding some of the points men- 

 tioned in the report, Dr Bryce furnishes the following Note to 

 Report on Animal Bones found at Lochrutton Crannog : — 



In regard to the bones of the domestic animals of the above 

 list, it may be interesting to note that they do not correspond to 

 those of the modern breeds. In the absence of the distinctive 

 horn-cores of the Celtic Shorthorn (Bos longifrons) it is not 

 possible to identify the ox bones with certainty as belonging to 

 that ancient variety of small ox, but such bones as exist corre- 

 spond in size to those in my possession, which certainly belonged 

 to Bos longifrons. 



