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Norway, and unlike the flattened antlers of the 
Siberian stock.* 
As regards its occurrence in Scotland, much 
valuable information has been brought together by 
Dr. John Alexander Smith, in a memoir published 
i the “ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of 
Scotland,” and entitled ‘ Notice of Remains of the 
Reindeer (Cervus tarandus), found in Ross-shire, 
Sutherland, and Caithness, with notes of its oecur- 
rence throughout Scotland.’t 
In 1866 part of a horn (apparently the tine 
that springs from the back part of the middle of the 
beam) was found with a flint arrowhead, and bones 
of an ox—sos longifrons—and dog, near two hut 
circles, in the course of draining the Mor-aich Mor, 
or Great Grazing, as the Gaelic words signify—a 
flat, sandy tract to the east of Tain, Ross-shire, 
bordered on the north by the Dornoch Firth. 
These bones, which lay beneath the moss on a 
natural shell bed at no distance below the surface 
(the drainage being only carried to the depth of four 
feet), were forwarded for examination to Prof. Owen, 
who had no hesitation in identifying the horn re- 
ferred to as that of a Reindeer. 
Several similar fragments were found on clearing 
out the ruins of an ancient circular fort or ‘ broch” 
* Leith Adams, “Report on Irish Fossil Mammals,’’ l.c. Comparative 
figures of the horns of Lapland and Siberian Reindeer are given in 
Murray’s “‘ Geographical Distribution of Mammals,” pp. 152, 153. See 
also Sir Victor Brooke, ‘‘ Proc. Zool. Soc.” 1878, p. 927, fig. 19. 
t+ “Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotl.,” vol. viii. pp. 186-223. 
ft Rev. J. M, Joass, “Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotl.,” vol. vi. p. 386. 
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