Notices of Memoirs — Irish Deer in Isle of Man. 73 



Garey, on the east side of the railway line, half a mile north from 

 St. John's, and the same distance south from Poortown station. 



The bones were nearly all in juxtaposition and, excepting the ribs 

 and pelvic bones and one shoulder-blade, in a very fair state of 

 preservation. The antlers were nearly complete; the beams, how- 

 ever, are represented by fragments, the skull also is fragmentary. 



The left antler is the larger ; it measures across the palm 15 inches, 

 allowing for a piece of the front edge which has decayed away ; the 

 right measures 13 inches. With the tines, most of which dropped 

 off on lifting from the marl, they are respectively 56^ inches and 

 53 inches long, and the beam would have been about 10 inches 

 more. They show six points, besides the brow-tines, which had 

 fallen off, the portion of the beam to which they were attached 

 having decayed away. 



The palm of the left antler lay over the lumbar vertebree, and the 

 right over the fore-quarters. The upper jaw teeth were preserved 

 on both sides, and those of the left lower jaw were embedded in the 

 ramus. A fragment of the right symphysis was also present, and 

 there were various fragments of a skull which had been broken up 

 before the discovery. 



One of the ribs had been perforated, probably by the point of au 

 antler of another elk in one of their usual fights. It was fractured 

 as well as perforated, and had been healed. This injury, therefore, 

 was not connected with the death of the animal, which took place in 

 its full prime, as shown by the perfection of the teeth and the 

 dimensions of the antlers. 



Professor Boyd Dawkins examined the bones in December and 

 made the measurements of the skeleton found at Close-y-Garey. 



Excavation No. 1 in disturbed soil yielded fragments of upper 

 jaw (teeth worn) of Cervus giganteus. 



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 washed 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 15 yards east 

 and west, by about 30 yards north and south. They excavated 

 all over this space to a depth of over 9 feet. The first four 

 excavations, being through ground which had previously been 

 disturbed, yielded no definite results, but at one point a few bones 

 were met with, among which were fragments of maxilla, the sixth 

 cervical vertebra, the second lumbar vertebra, and a fragment of 

 a rib. In association with these wei'e remains of horse represented 

 by a radius and lower jaws of two individuals. Though the ground 



