47 4 CERVUS. 
in driving a drain to a lead-mine, about nine yards deep 
from the surface of the earth, at Lathill Dale, near Bake- 
well, Derbyshire. The antlers, with other bones, were in 
‘“‘a sort of soft coarse clay, or marl, interspersed with little 
petrified balls or pellets of the same kind of substance as 
the tuft.”* Mr. Barker subsequently narrates that ‘* some 
men working in a quarry of that kind of stone which in this 
part of Derbyshire we call ‘ tuft,’ at about five or six feet 
below the surface in a very solid part of the rock, met with 
several fragments of the horns and bones of one or different _ 
animals.” The antlers, when worked out of the surround- 
ing matrix, proved to be those of a ‘crowned Hart,’ in 
which the summit or sur-royal expands and radiates a 
number of short snags from a funnel-shaped cavity, large 
enough to contain a thrush’s nest, whence the park-keepers, 
Mr. Barker says, call them ‘throstle-nest horns. The 
following were the dimensions of the fossil antler as com- 
pared with the corresponding one of a recent Red-deer. 
Fossil. Recent. 
Kt. In. Bt. in: 
Circumference at the insertion into the skull 5 OU oe ® 4 
Length of lowest (brow) antler c : : le. 32 uo) 
Length of entire horn . : c . so oF ear 
The locality in Derbyshire where these remains were 
found is Alport, in the parish of Youlgreave. 
Mr. Okes makes mention of the discovery, at about half 
a mile eastward of the town of Chatteris, in Cambridge- 
shire, ina stratum of clay, underlying peat-moss, “ of part of 
the horns of a species of Deer, measuring two feet, and, in 
circumference at that end by which it is attached to the 
skull, ten inches.” This, Mr. Okes concludes ‘“ from its 
* Phil. Trans. vol. xliii. p. 266. Tuft isa deposit from calcareous waters on 
their exposure to air, usually containing portions of plants incrusted with car- 
bonate of lime ; it is called by modern geologists, when it is porous, ‘ tufa,’ and 
when solid ‘ trayertin.” + Ib. vol. Ixxy. p. 353. 
