THE WOLF. 119 
Sussex.—Bracklesham (Brit. Mus. and Mus. Chichester) ; Peven- 
sey* (“ Sussex Archzeol. Coll.” xxiv. p. 160.) 
WIttsHIrE.— Vale of Kennet (“ Sussex Archzol.” tom. cit.). 
YorxksHirE.—Bielbecks (Mus. York ; “ Phil. Mag.” vol. vi. p. 225); 
Kirkdale (Brit. Mus., Mus. Geol. Soc. and Roy. Coll. Surg ; 
Buckland, “Trans. Roy. Soc.” 1822; Clift, id. 1823, p. 90). 
We have here a dozen counties in different parts 
of England and Wales, north, south, east, and west, 
which show clearly from their position how very gene- 
rally distributed the Wolf must formerly have been. 
The geological record, however, is but an im- 
perfect one in showing the distribution of the Wolf 
in bygone times, for to the localities above mentioned 
might be added numerous others in which we know 
from history that this animal formerly abounded. 
The forest of Riddlesdale in Northumberland ; the 
great forests of Blackburnshire and Bowland in 
Lancashire ; Richmond Forest, Yorkshire ; Sherwood 
Forest, Nottinghamshire ; Savernake Forest, Wilts ; 
the New Forest ; the forests of Bere and Irwell, and 
many others, are on record as former strongholds of 
these ferocious animals. To these we shall have 
occasion to refer later when dealing with the 
historical evidence. 
Unlike other extinct British animals, the Wolf 
apparently has not deteriorated in size, for the fossil 
bones which have been discovered, as above men- 
tioned, are not larger, nor in any way to be dis- 
tinguished from those of European wolves of the 
present day. 
* In 1851 many skulls of Wolves were taken out of a disused 
medizeval well at Pevensey Castle. 
