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exactly what was required to produce the modification observed 
in the latter Romanised breed. The characteristics of the Urus 
nowhere appear among the Romano-British cattle. 
The Kerry cattle are the most typical examples in the British 
Isles of the Celtic Shorthorn, while the Chillingham cattle are the 
nearest representation of the breed introduced by the Romans. 
The Highland and Welsh cattle are derived largely from the 
Celtic Shorthorn, with more or less mixture of the Roman breed. 
All the above are whole-coloured or shaded. 

Fic. 31.—Horn-core from medieval ditch. Woodwardian Museum, 
Cambridge. 
The Longhorns, which appear nowhere with Romano-British 
or early medizval remains, are the offspring of the large breeds 
imported from Holstein and the Low Countries in later medieval 
times. All these, and the stock crossed with them, are apt to be 
parti-coloured or sheeted. 
The Medizval Shorthorn (Fig. 31), as found in the ditches, &e., 
of the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, is a reversion to 
the numerically-predominant native breed (Celtic Shorthorn) after 
the legionaries had been withdrawn, and selection and breeding 
had become impossible.” 


Fic. 32,—Hunting the Wild Ox. British Museum, Assyrian Sculptures, 
