68 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
at Kintradwell, near Brora, Sutherlandshire, together 
with the remains of domesticated animals (as oxen 
and swine), an iron spear-head and dagger, and ten 
human skeletons.* These notices are regarded by 
Dr. Smith as the first which have recorded the dis- 
covery of Reindeer remains associated with human 
dwellings in the British Islands. 
Pennant, in his “ History of Quadrupeds” (vol. 1. 
p. 100, 1781), has referred to some fossil horns of the 
Reindeer, which, on the authority of Dr. Ramsay, 
Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh, are 
stated to have been found in a maz! pit five feet 
below the surface, near Craigton, Linlithgowshire. 
Dr. John Scouler, of Glasgow, also, has described 
some fragments of Reindeer horns from the alluvium 
of the Clyde. These were found in beds of finely 
laminated sand on the north bank of the river, below 
the junction ofthe Kelvin, where also was discovered 
the cranium of a large ox (Bos primigenius). 
In the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, amongst a 
collection of deer horns, is preserved a fragment of 
the left antler of a Reindeer, which was found in 
boulder clay at Raesgill, on the north side of the 
Clyde, in the neighbourhood of Carluke. 
When the loch of Marlee, in the parish of Kinloch, 
Perthshire, had been partly drained for the sake of 
the marl, some very interesting animal remains came 
to light, amongst others the skeleton of a Beaver, 
already referred to, and a pair of horns and some 
* Sce © Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scotl.,” vol. v. p. 242. 
