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ANIMAL REMAINS FOUND AT CISSBURY. 



the fatal pitfall. They were found immediately below the ditch 

 bottom. 



No bone of red deer, Cervus elap/ius, has come from this pit to 

 my knowledge ; a single tyne may have come from it, but its 

 presence in this series I incline to refer to accidental mixing in 

 more recent times than those just alluded to. 



An undetermined fragment of bone, which may have formed part 

 of a bone implement, is also referred to this ' Skeleton Pit/ 



I have had entrusted to me, or found myself in this pit, bones of 

 the shrew mouse, of the field mouse, of the toad, and a few teeth 

 of a cub fox. I am not able to attach any importance to them. 

 The important vertebrate animals in this series are, by their pre- 

 sence, the pig, the goat, and the roe, and by their absence, the red 

 deer and the domestic ox, though possibly some of the few and 

 fragmentary bones spoken of above under the heading Bos jorimi- 

 genius may be referable to that variety of the species. 



In the Skeleton Pit — Skeletons of Sus scrofa v. domesticus are 

 Represented by— 



4*fj Scapulae 



3 »£ ht \ Ulnae 

 3 left I 



3 Radii 



4 ffM Femora 

 2 left ) 



■'j*» iaoha 



2 left ) 



3 right Pubic bones 



3rigl.tj Ilia 



I left ) 

 Fragments of 6 lower jaws, the 

 youngest with complete milk dentition, 

 the oldest with third molar not quite in 



Four sets of cervical vertebrae — 



Of which set No. I is complete, and 



will fit with a set of 8 dorsal, 5 



lumbar, and 2 sacral. 

 Set No. 2 is also complete, and will 



fit with a set of 12 dorsal ami 4 



lumbar. 

 Section No. 3 consists of 3 cervical 



vertebrae, which will fit with a set 



of 14 dorsal and 4 lumbar verte- 

 brae. 

 Set No. 4 consists of 6 cervical verte- 

 brae, which will fit with a set of 10 

 dorsal vertebrae and 3 lumbar, with 

 which a right pubic bone and the 

 jaws of a pig, certainly under five 

 months, may be connected as parts 

 of one skeleton. 

 A fifth set of vertebrae, containing no 

 cervicals, but 6 dorsals and I lum- 

 bar. 

 In addition to the vertebrae here 

 specified, there are 2 sacral, 1 caudal, 

 1 dorsal, and 3 lumbar, which cannot 

 very easily be referred to any one of the 

 five sets, but which, from one reason or 

 another, do not speak very positively to 

 the presence in the series of any part of 

 a sixth skeleton. This fact, however, is 

 proved beyond question by the lower 

 jaws and the fragments of lower jaws 

 contained in the collection. 



In addition to the bones of the domes- 

 tic pig already enumerated, there were 

 very large numbers of ribs, nearly all 

 broken, and a considerable number of 

 phalangeal bones. 



