NOTE ON BONES DREDGED FROM THE RIVER WEAR. 43 



front of the crania broad, the cores of the horns short, being 

 abont three inches long, and not strong. 



One remarkable and considerable fragment of the craninm, 

 with the almost entire core of the left horn, and the root of the 

 right, was distinguishable from the rest by its large proportions, 

 both of the cranium and of the core of the horn, which must have 

 belonged to an adult Bos longifrons, if the fragment be really 

 ancient, which seems very probable, from its having the same 

 general appearance as the rest of the bones, and from the depth 

 at which it had lain. The distance from base to base of the 

 cores across the top of the forehead was seven inches and a half. 

 The length of the left core round the greater or outer curve was 

 twenty-seven inches and a half, and its circumference at the base 

 twelve inches and three-quarters. 



There was a front tarsal bone of the B. longifrons and a hinder 

 tarsal bone of the Red Deer ; also a vertebra of a large whale. 



The collection is to be deposited in the Sunderland Museum, 

 where is to be seen a canoe, made of the hollowed-out trunk of a 

 tree, also dredged from the bed of the Wear, and several human 

 skulls from the same part of the river, which were described 

 some years ago in the Transactions of the Field Club by the late 

 Dr. P. H. Johnson. 



[In addition to these animal remains some portions of large 

 trees have also been taken from the same position in the bed of 

 the Wear. One of these, which is now lying near the South 

 Dock entrance, at Sunderland, I have measured, and find the 

 dimensions to be approximately as follows. The fragment which 

 seems to be an almost entire trunk from its base to the origin of 

 the branches, is thirty-six feet in length : at a distance of thirty 

 feet from the base its girth is fifteen feet and a half, and the dia- 

 meter at the base, where the spread of the roots is about to com- 

 mence, is five feet and a half. The tree appears to be an oak. — 

 G. S. Brady.'] 



