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magnitude, must evidently belong to the celebrated extinct 
species found in Ireland,” viz. the Megaceros Hibernicus. 
Near the spot where these fossils were found, part of a 
Mammoth’s skull with two grinding-teeth was exhumed 
from the same stratum of diluvial clay. The dimensions 
above given do not, however, exceed those of the ancient 
Red-deer exhumed in Lancashire and Derbyshire ; whilst 
the basal circumference of the antler of the Megaceros is 
commonly from twelve to sixteen inches. It is more pro- 
bable, therefore, that the large antlers from Chatteris 
were remains of the Cervus Hlaphus, when it existed 
under circumstances which favoured the full development 
of its specific characters. 
I have been favoured by Jabez Allies, Esq. of Lower 
Wick, near Worcester, with sketches of nearly equally 
fine antlers of the Red-deer, of the discovery of which he 
has given the following account in the Worcester Journal, 
October 3rd, 1844. 
“ At the southward part of the cutting across the mea- 
dow at Diglis, near this city, for the Severn Navigation 
Lock, several relics of antiquity have been found, namely : 
—At the depth of about twenty feet in the alluvial soil 
portions of small trees, bushes, and hazel-nuts, intermingled 
with fragments of stags-horns and bones; and a little 
nearer to the river southward, at the depth of about 
twenty-five feet, the relics of an oak-tree ; and still nearer 
the river, at the depth of about thirty feet, a great num- 
ber of bones of the deer kind, and of small short-horned 
cattle and other animals, together with fragments of Roman 
urns and pans of red earth, and a piece of Samian ware ; 
and a little nearer to the river, at the depth of about thirty 
feet, the horns and part of the skull of a large Stag; but 
whether it is of the Elk kind, or of what other species, I 
