
WHITE CATTLE: AN INQUIRY INTO THEIR ORIGIN, ETC. 245 
Practically we can entirely ignore Bos primigenius as a factor in 
the history of early British cattle, especially of white breeds. 
On the other hand, Bos longifrons may have had some influence 
on our white breeds, though their present colour and horns differ 
from it. We find, according to Professor Hughes. at stations 
where the Romans had long resided an improved form of ox 
appears, a cross with an upturned-horn variety, which could 
only have been the ordinary Roman breed, imported by 
the conquerors for various purposes. These may have been 

Fic. 17.—Romano-British, with horn-cores showing a tendency to turn up. 
Reach Fen, Cambridge. Woodwardian Museum. 
a white race, more probably a dark one. Among the Celtic 
Shorthorns there were no parti-coloured animals, nor were 
‘they amongst those of the Roman type. Native British coins 
also show cattle, but never of the Urus type; they either have the 
conventional thick stumpy horns of a bull or those of the Celtic 
Shorthorn, and, when copying Roman productions, the lyre-shaped 
horns and dewlap of Roman cattle. A writer of last century in the 
tenth volume of the “ Archzologia” tells us as regards ‘‘ The Wild 
Bull,” that for this creature we should see the coins of Cunobelin. 
