XXIII. 



REPORT ON THE FAUNA OF A CRANNOG AT 

 LOCHLEE, TARBOLTON, AYRSHIRE K 



Among the bones submitted to me by Robert Munro, M.D., 

 Kilmarnock, and reported as having been procured from a Crannog 

 at Lochlee, the following animals have their skeletons repre- 

 sented : — 



The ox, Bos longifrons. — No proof of the presence of the wild 

 variety. 



The pig, Sus scrofa, variety domestica. — I am not clear that the 

 wild variety is represented here any more than in the specimens 

 of the preceding species. (One fragment might have belonged to 

 a wild individual, the molar No. 3 in it having all the pinnacles 

 and eminences which have given to the teeth of the Suidae, as to 

 the whole division of non-ruminant Ariodactyles, the name Buno- 

 dont, worn away, and having its grinding surface consequently 

 reduced to one single, however sinuous, continent of dentine 

 bounded by enamel.) As is well known 2 , the bones of an ill- 

 tended and ill-fed, self-providing, so-called domestic pig, come to 

 be very like the bones of a thoroughly wild pig ; whilst, on the 

 other hand, it is also well known that very great variations exist 

 as to size within the limits even of the wild varieties of Sus scrofa. 

 But in the series now before me there is only one fragment, con- 

 sisting of the part of the lower jaw which carries the last molar, 



1 [In 1878 a Crannog at Lochlee was excavated and a description was given by Dr. 

 Robert Munro to the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland, and published in their Pro- 

 ceedings, 1880. The Report on the animal remains found in the course of the excava- 

 tions was furnished by Professor Rolleston. — Editor.] 



2 See Nathusius, ' Schweineschadel,' 1864, p. 147; Riitimeyer, 'Basel Geseli. 

 Naturforscher,' 1864, p. 161; Naumann, 'Archiv fur Anthrop.,' viii. p. 23, 1875; 

 Studer, 'Zurich Mittheilung Pfahlbauten/ 1876, xix. 3, p. 67. 



