1 04 Gleanings from the 



carved on a rib by the cave-men of Dordogne, 

 apparently with a flint graver. 1 The manner in 

 which one horfe is reprefented as biting the tail 

 of another at the fame time that it deprefles and 

 puts back its own ears, is remarkably true to 

 nature, and feems the (ketch of an artift (killed in 

 the ufe of the pencil, rather than the fcratching 

 of a favage. The equid^e, as a family, only date 

 from Pliocene times. The foffil horfe of our 

 iflands was the fize of a fmall horfe at prefent, 

 and had a larger head than the domefticated races, 

 as may be well feen in the engraving of the carved 

 rib from Dordogne in Mr. Wilfon's book. Two 

 or three fkeletons of horfes have been found in 

 Scotland buried along with their owners, chiefs in 

 the iron period, and the bridle-bits of thefe horfes 

 are frequently very beautiful. 2 But with regard to 

 horfe furniture, two moft fmgular horfe-collars of 

 ftone were found near the parallel roads of Glenroy 

 in Scotland. 3 Thefe are models rather than the 

 actual collars which were ufed in the ftone period, 

 and are finely polifhed. Of courfe their difcovery 

 led to much wild fpeculation about the parallel 

 roads having once been the fcene of public games 

 and chariot races, after the old-fafhioned type 

 of archaeology. Careful breeding has given the 

 domefticated horfe both fize and fymmetry. We 

 have feen Roman horfe-fhoes, found in Devon, 

 which are very fmall compared with thofe ufed 



1 Wilfon, "Prehiftoric Man," i., p. 106 (1876). 



2 Wilfon, "Prehiftoric Annals of Scotland," 1851, p. 458 

 (feveral figures). 



3 Ibid., P . I 56. 



