THE NORSE CONTINGENT 



63 



The figures show two kinds of bulls, a horned 

 and a hornless. The following illustrations of 



BURGHEAD BULLS. 

 [From " The Sculptured Stones of Scotland.'* 



them are copied from " The Sculptured Stones of 

 Scotland."^ And there is evidence of hornless 

 cattle in Ireland as early 

 as the ninth or the 

 tenth century. In a 

 crannoge near Dun- 

 shaughlin, about seven- 

 teen miles north-west 

 of Dublin, a consider- 

 able number of hornless 

 and other skulls was 

 unearthed in the middle 

 of last century. Some 

 of these are now in the 

 National Museum in 

 Dublin, and one of them 

 is figured here. Sir 

 William Wilde was able to fix the crannoge's 

 range of date at from 848 to 933 a.d. 



HORNLESS SKULL, FROM THE 



DUNSHAUGHLIN CRANNOGE. 



[Drawn from a specimen in the 



Dublin National Museum. 



^ Vol. ii., Plate 23. 



