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antlers from a deposit of tufa near Bakewell, Derby- 

 shire, is placed in a case on the top of Pier-case 16. 

 There are also associated remains of an extinct fallow deer 

 (C. browni) in Pier-case 15, and of the roebuck (Capreolus 

 caprea) in Table-case 10. The reindeer (Bangifer tarandus) 

 during the Pleistocene period wandered as far south as the 

 Pyrenees and Alps, and there are fine antlers (Fig. 31) from 



Pier-case 



15. 



Table-case 



10. 



Fig. 32. — Antlers of fifth and sixth years of " Cervus" tetraceros), from 

 the Upper Pliocene of Peyrolles, Prance ; one-tenth nat. size. (Pier- 

 case 15.) 



the Thames valley and other English localities in Pier-case 

 15. This animal is said to have survived in Caithness so 

 late as the twelfth century, but experiments have shown that 

 even when imported and allowed suitable feeding ground it 

 is unable to exist in that country now. The elk (Alces 

 machlis) also lived in Pleistocene Britain as far south as the 

 Thames valley (see Pier-case 15 and the pillar between 



Pier-case 

 15. 



