ON TFIE IRISH ELK REMAINS. 



549 



Teeth {adult, tcorn). 



M. 3 

 M. 2 



Excavation No. 1 [disturbed soil). 

 Fragments of Upper Jaw {teeth worn). 



The skeleton lay in white marl at a depth of about 9 feet from the 

 present surface, on its right side, the legs drawn up to the body, the head 

 towards the margin of the ancient pool, now a morass, which lies in a 

 hollow in the glacial drifts. 



From the position of the bones the animal appeared to have died 

 where it was found, not to have been Avashed down by floods. About 

 sixty years ago the bog had been worked for marl, and the present well- 

 defined banks mark out a rectangular hollow some 50 yards square and 

 about 3 feet below the surrounding surface. 



Across one corner of this a trench was dug to carry off the water, and 

 the operations of the Committee were confined to a triangular area on the 

 west side of the trench, measuring about 1.5 yards east and west by about 

 30 yards north and south. They excavated all over this space to a depth 



