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dogs of the bronze period referred to, supra p. 334, are about the same 

 size. 



In the same chamber with the bones of this dog a single bone of a 

 fox, Canis vuljpes, was found, which escaped notice when the contents of 

 the chamber were first examined and described, 1. c. Its texture and 

 weathering are so similar to those of the other bones, human and canine, 

 found in the chamber, as to suggest that it must have been nearly or 

 quite of the same age ; and its slenderness and slightness, as compared 

 with those of modern foxes, illustrate the principle that the bones of the 

 carnivora of times when game-preserving was unknown, and when they 

 had consequently more of their own congeners to compete with and 

 fewer of their victims available to prey upon, are smaller than those of 

 our days when these conditions are exactly reversed. The bones of the 

 martens and polecats which I have found in various barrows bear out 

 this view. Similar facts have been noted by Riitimeyer in the ' Fauna 

 der Pfahlbauten/ p. 231. 



As in the earlier pile-dwellings of Switzerland, so in the stone-age 

 barrows of this country, the horse is less frequently found than from 

 what we know of the discovery of its bones in cave-dwellings on the one 

 hand, and in interments of later date than the stone age on the other, we 

 should be inclined to expect 1 . I have never found the bones or teeth of 

 a horse in a long barrow, and I would remark that, whilst such bones are 

 very likely to be introduced into such barrows in the way of secondary 

 interments, I have not met with any exact record as to the finding 

 of them in surroundings which left no doubt as to their being con- 

 temporaneous with the primary interments. The bones of the horse 

 are both durable and conspicuous, and it is difficult to think that 

 if the neolithic man had used the animal either for purposes of 

 food or for those of carriage, as his predecessors and successors did, 

 we should not have come upon abundant and unambiguous evidence of 

 such use. 



As regards the wild boar, Sus scrofa, v&r.ferus, I have to say that in 

 this country, whatever has been the case elsewhere, it has been but 

 rarely found in the barrows either of the bronze or of the stone period. 

 Until indeed the discovery of it at Cissbury, as described in the ' Jour. 



1 For the history of the prehistoric horse, see Eutimeyer, • Fauna der Pfahlbauten,' 

 1861, p. 122 ; 'Archiv fur Anthrop.,' 1873, vi. p. 60 ; 1875, viii. p. 125 ; ' Verander- 

 ungen unserer Thierwelt,' 1876, pp. 69, 92 ; Naumann, 'Archiv fur Anthrop.,' 1875, 

 viii. p. 12; Merk, ' Excavations at the Kesserloch,' translated by J. E. Lee, 1876, 

 pp. 9, 47, with figure; Dupont, ' Congres Internat. Stockholm,' C. R. 821 ; Kinberg, 

 ibid., p. 830. 



