CATTLE IN SCOTLAND 



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trasted with 630 bones of Sheep, 26 of Red Deer, and three 

 of the Horse. 



There is no need to detail its history in later times, 

 it is sufficient to say that the bones of the Celtic Short- 

 horn have been found in plenty in the Scottish crannogs or 

 lake-dwellings, as at Loch of Dowalton in Wigtownshire, 

 Lochlee and Lochspouts in Ayrshire, and Isle of Eriska in 

 Argyllshire ; in cave deposits, on the south coast at St 

 Medan's and St Ninian's Caves in Wigtownshire and 

 Borness Cave in Kirkcudbrightshire, on the east coast 



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Fig. 12. Horn-sheaths of Celtic Shorthorn and upper part of skull with horn-cores and with 

 fragments of skin and hair attached, found deep in Irish bog relics of a primitive 

 domesticated race of cattle. \ nat. size. 



at Wemyss in Fifeshire, and on the west in caves on 

 the Ayrshire coast ; in duns or hill-forts from Tiree to 

 Burghead ; in underground "Eird" or "Picts' " houses even 

 in the outer islands, on the mainland of Orkney near 

 Kirkwall and at Skara, and in the outer Hebrides in Harris; 

 in kitchen-middens or shell-mounds and in the " Pictish 

 Towers " or brochs throughout the length of the land. The 

 Celtic Shorthorn was therefore the one well-defined race of 

 domestic cattle familiar to the Scottish peoples till the close 

 of the broch period towards the ninth or tenth century of 

 the Christian era, and probably it remained dominant to a 

 much later day. 



