456 J. Gunn—Does the Mammoth occur in the Forest-bed 2 
tribution of plants and animals suggested by this assemblage remain 
to be explained; but it seems well established that these forms of 
life belong to the Barnwell gravels, whatever age or ages they may 
represent. The Sheep is as yet unknown in this zone. 
It was therefore with great surprise, that I found among the bones 
brought to me by workmen from the Barnwell gravel pits, with the 
remains of Ox, Deer? etc., the bones of a Sheep. They appeared to 
be in precisely the same state of preservation as the others obtained 
from the Barnwell beds. I therefore went immediately to the pits 
to examine the spot from which the bones were said to have been 
procured, and I ascertained that they were all found along a definite 
band coinciding with the bedding. It was not, however a bed, but 
a long cylindrical mass following a more sandy incoherent bed. I 
followed this a short distance, easily clearing out the contents of the 
hole, which was somewhat oval in section, and finding fragments of 
bone at the bottom; but what was more important, I discovered 
also on the sides of the hole the marks of the claws of the burrow- 
ing animal which had made it. It was therefore probably a badger 
earth, subsequently, as all huntsmen know is commonly the case, 
occupied by foxes. Where the hole was seen in section, it was 
entirely filled by sand and gravel which had worked down into it. 
Here under the most favourable circumstances, it was not easy to 
detect that a portion of the gravel had been filled in at an entirely 
subsequent date to that of the main mass; while the state of the 
bones which had lain there so long under conditions similar to those 
affecting the rest of the gravel did not arouse any suspicion. It was 
only the close examination of the section immediately upon the 
finding of the bones of a species not expected to occur there, that 
led to the discovery of the true explanation. Another caution I 
would add. In such cases when burrowing animals come across 
obstructions such as long pieces of bone or stone, in their efforts to 
remove them they score them more or less deeply with their claws 
and teeth, producing cuts very much like those which would be made 
by primeval man with a blunt implement. I have seen numerous 
examples of this even in rabbit burrows. 
ViI.—Dors ExrzepyH4s PRIMIGENIUS OCCUR IN THE NORFOLK 
Forrest Bep ? 
By Joun Gunn, M.A., F.G.S. 
ip HAVE been urged so strongly to state what is the result of my 
researches, with respect to the presence of Hlephas primigenius 
in the Forest-bed series, that I am induced to offer the following 
remarks for insertion in the GrotocicaL MaGazine. 
During a search of upwards of 40 years, I have never met with a 
specimen of the tooth of an Elephant which could justly be considered 
to be more than a type leading to the E. primigenius, and certainly 
not with a specimen of the Rhinoceros tichorhinus, which is reputed 
to be the inseparable companion of that Elephant. 
Mr. George Randall Johnson, who has many years searched the 
