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celts, indicating a still later period the Bronze 

 Age. 



Mr. Woods has published a good description, with 

 figures of the cranial part of the skull and horn-cores 

 of Bos primigenius which were discovered in 1838 in 

 the bed of the Avon, at Melksham, and has referred 

 to similar remains found in the neighbourhoods of 

 Bath, Tiverton and Newton St. Loe.* 



In the Magazine of Natural History (1838, p. 163), 

 Mr. Brown of Stanway has recorded the discovery 

 in a mass of drift sand overlying the London clay 

 at Clacton, Essex, of a portion of the cranium with 

 horn-cores of Bos primigenius, a very perfect skull 

 of which has been admirably figured by Professor 

 Owen,t from a specimen found at Athole, Perthshire, 

 and preserved in the British Museum. 



Fleming, in his " History of British Animals" 

 (1828), has referred to a skull of this animal which is 

 now preserved in the Museum of the New College, 

 Edinburgh, and of which he has briefly given 

 dimensions. It was found in a marl-pit at New- 

 burgh, Fifeshire. Through the kindness of Dr. J. A. 

 Smith, and by permission of the Society of Antiquaries 

 of Scotland, we are here enabled to figure it from an 

 illustration, slightly reduced, in Dr. Smith's excellent 

 " Notes on the Ancient Cattle of Scotland," printed 

 in the " Proceedings" of the Society referred to. To 

 the proprietors of The Field we are also indebted 

 for permission to make use of an engraving of an 



* Woods' " Description of Fossil Skull of an Ox," 4to, 1839. 

 f " British Fossil Mammals," p. 498. 



