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celts, indicating a still later period—the Bronze 
Age, 
Mr. Woods has published a good description, with 
figures of the cranial part of the skull and horn-cores 
of Bos primigenius which were discovered in 1838 in 
the bed of the Avon, at Melksham, and has referred 
to similar remains found in the neighbourhoods of 
Bath, Tiverton and Newton St. Loe.* 
In the Magazine of Natural History (1838, p. 163), 
Mr. Brown of Stanway has recorded the discovery 
in a mass of drift sand overlying the London clay 
at Clacton, Essex, of a portion of the cranium with 
horn-cores of Bos primugenius, a very perfect skull 
of which has been admirably figured by Professor 
Owen,t from a specimen found at Athole, Perthshire, 
and preserved in the British Museum. 
Fleming, in his “ History of British Animals” 
(1828), has referred to a skull of this animal which is 
now preserved in the Museum of the New College, 
Edinburgh, and of which he has briefly given 
dimensions. It was found in a marl-pit at New- 
burgh, Fifeshire. Through the kindness of Dr. J. A. 
Smith, and by permission of the Society of Antiquaries 
of Scotland, we are here enabled to figure it from an 
illustration, slightly reduced, in Dr. Smith’s excellent 
“Notes on the Ancient Cattle of Scotland,” printed 
in the “ Proceedings” of the Society referred to. To 
the proprietors of The [eld we are also indebted 
for permission to make use of an engraving of an 
* Woods’ “ Description of Fossil Skull of an Ox,” 4to, 1839. 
+ “ British Fossil Mammals,” p. 498. 
