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at Kintradwell, near Brora, Sutherlandshire, together 

 with the remains of domesticated animals (as oxen 

 and swine), an iron spear-head and dagger, and ten 

 human skeletons.* These notices are regarded by 

 Dr. Smith as the first which have recorded the dis- 

 covery of Reindeer remains associated with human 

 dwellings in the British Islands. 



Pennant, in his " History of Quadrupeds" (vol. i.. 

 p. ioo, 1 781), has referred to some fossil horns of the 

 Reindeer, which, on the authority of Dr. Ramsay, 

 Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh, are 

 stated to have been found in a marl pit five feet 

 below the surface, near Craigton, Linlithgowshire. 

 Dr. John Scouler, of Glasgow, also, has described 

 some fragments of Reindeer horns from the alluvium 

 of the Clyde. These were fcrand in beds of finely 

 laminated sand on the north bank of the river, below 

 the junction of the Kelvin, where also was discovered 

 the cranium of a large ox {Bos primigenius). 



In the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, amongst a 

 collection of deer horns, is preserved a fragment of 

 the left antler of a Reindeer, which was found in 

 boulder clay at Raesgill, on the north side of the 

 Clyde, in the neighbourhood of Carluke. 



When the loch of Marlee, in the parish of Kinloch, 

 Perthshire, had been partly drained for the sake of 

 the marl, some very interesting animal remains came 

 to light, amongst others the skeleton of a Beaver, 

 already referred to, and a pair of horns and some 



* See '■ Proc. Soc. Antiq. Seotl.," vol. v. p. 242. 



