50 THE DOMESTICATION OF ANIMALS 



Crofthead in Renfrewshire, where they were associated with 

 bones of the Giant Fallow Deer or " Irish Elk" and of the 

 Horse, as well as in the valley of Cowden Burn, in the same 



Fig. 10. Front view'of skull of Urus, the native wild ox of Scotland, 

 from Fifeshire. f nat. size. 



Fig. 10 a. Side view of above skull of Urus. \ nat. size. 



county. In the marl deposits formed on the floor of the 

 lakes which succeeded the Glacial Period, skulls and other 

 bones of the Urus have been commonly found from Wigtown- 

 shire to Caithness, although the headquarters of the race, as 



