BOS LONGIFRONS 



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according to Boyd Dawkins and Rlitimeyer, was 

 already in the domesticated state. ^ At any rate, 

 the remains of this little ox, which Owen called 

 Bos longifrons because of the great depth of his 

 forehead, have been found in Britain and Western 

 Europe in all kinds of deposits from Neolithic 

 down to the beginning of historic time ; and, if 

 he was not brought into Britain in the domestic 

 state, he eventually became the domestic ox of 



BOS LONGIFRONS, FROM SWEDEN. 



\_From Nihson. 



the pre- Roman inhabitants, for no other kind was 

 brought into the country previous to the Roman 

 Invasion. Cattle could only have been imported 

 from the opposite shores of France and Belgium, 

 and there they belonged to the self-same race. 

 Bos longifrons " is the native breed with which 

 we must start in all our speculations as to the 

 origin and development of British oxen. The 

 Romans found that breed here and no other." ^ 



' Ibid., p. 261, and *' Encyc. Brit.," v. 245. 

 * McKenny Hughes, op. cit. 



