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everywhere subjugated and used by man. The 

 latter was the only ox in Britain in the time of the 

 Eomans, and afforded sustenance to their legions. 

 From it the small dark breeds of Wales and Scotland 

 are descended ; and it survived until recently in 

 Cornwall, Cumberland and Westmoreland. The 

 remains of Bos longifrons are plentiful in the English 

 fens, and it seems to have afforded a staple article of 



SKULL OF BOS PEIMIGENIUS, LANCASHIRE. 



food in the Neolithic Age. Mr. Sydney Skertchley 

 found immense numbers of the bones of this animal 

 in what are probably the remains of a Stone-age lake- 

 dwelling at Crowland.* At the great flint-implement 

 manufactory at Grimes Graves, near Brandon, the 

 remains of this animal are very plentiful, and belong 

 chiefly to young calves. It would appear from this 



* Miller and Skertchley, " Fenland, Past and Present," p. 343 

 (1878). 



