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everywhere subjugated and used by man. The 
latter was the only ox in Britain in the time of the 
Romans, and afforded sustenance to their legions. 
From it the small dark breeds of Wales and Scotland 
are descended ; and it survived until recently in 
Cornwall, Cumberland and Westmoreland. The 
remains of Bos longifrons are plentiful in the English 
fens, and it seems to have afforded a staple article of 
SKULL OF BOS PRIMIGENIUS, LANCASHIRE. 
food in the Neolithic Age. Mr. Sydney Skertchley 
found immense numbers of the bones of this animal 
in what are probably the remains of a Stone-age lake- 
dwelling at Crowland.* At the great flint-implement 
manufactory at Grimes Graves, near Brandon, the 
remains of this animal are very plentiful, and belong 
chiefly to young calves. It would appear from this 
* Miller and Skertchley, “ Fenland, Past and Present,” p. 343 
(1878). 
