CERVUS ELAPHUS. 477 
Many large antlers of Red-deer were discovered by Mr. 
Gladdish in the freshwater sandy deposits above the chalk 
at Gravesend. 
Antlers and bones of the Red-deer are found associated 
with remains of the Mammoth and Rhinoceros in the fresh- 
water deposits at Brentford, Rugby, in the valley of the 
Thames, and in that of the Severn. Morton has figured 
such antlers in his ‘Natural History of the County of North- 
ampton ;’ and a very fine fossil antler, wanting the sum- 
mit, has been acquired by the British Museum, (No. 
16,081,) from the collection of Miss Baker of Northampton. 
Dr. Buckland, in his account of the fossils from the 
Hyzena-cave at Kirkdale, says of the fragments of horns 
of Deer, ‘‘ One of these resembles the horn of the common 
Stag or Red-deer, the circumference of the base measuring 
nine inches and three quarters, which is about the size of 
our largest stag. A second measures seven inches and 
three quarters at the same part, and both have two antlers 
that rise very near the base.” ‘No horns are found en- 
tire, but fragments only, and these apparently gnawed to 
pieces, like the bones; their lower extremity nearest the 
head is that which has generally escaped destruction ; and 
it is a curious fact, that this portion of all the horns I have 
seen from the cave shows, by the rounded state of the base, 
that they had fallen off by absorption or necrosis, and been 
shed from the head on which they grew, and not broken 
off by violence.”* With respect to the horns so shed, 
the author afterwards remarks, “It is probable that the 
hyznas found them thus shed, and dragged them home 
for the purpose of gnawing them in their den; and to 
animals so fond of bones, the spongy interior of horns 
of this kind would not be unacceptable. I found a frag- 
* © Reliquice Diluvianee,’ p. 19. 
