BURIED BONES ABOUT LIVERPOOL. 153 



Many years ago the bones of a gigantic animal were 

 discovered in making an excavation somewhere about 

 Bold Street, and considerable excitement was the result, 

 until some old resident remembered that an elephant that 

 had died in a menagerie had been buried there. 



Twenty years ago the horns of Bos taurus were found 

 in making the foundation of some buildings on the north 

 side of Lord Street, near the edge of the " Old Pool" which 

 formerly ran along what is now Whitechapel and Paradise 

 Street, and, in 1894, in excavating for the site of the new 

 post-office, some hundreds of such horns were discovered. 

 The cores only remained, the horny sheath having been 

 removed, and I ascertained that a tannery once existed on 

 the spot. 



Human bones and skeletons have also been found at 

 various times and places, some of persons supposed to 

 have been murdered, and of ship-wrecked sailors, and 

 others of a soldier of William III., near Egremont, and 

 of men who fell during the siege of the town 250 years ago. 



The large boulders occasionally found in the boulder 

 clay, during excavations, are usually buried, that course 

 being the most easy mode of disposing of them. The two 

 large boulders, striated by ice, on the east side of the Free 

 Public Museum, one from an excavation in Hackin's Hey 

 and the other from a dock at Bootle, would have been 

 buried had not the late Sir James A. Picton caused them 

 to be brought away and placed in their present position. 

 In constructing the sewers under the streets boulders are 

 sometimes met with, and are then forced into a side cavity 

 or a hole below made for their reception. Many years 

 ago at least two large boulders were to be seen on the 

 shore at Egremont, where they had fallen from the cliffs, 

 but they have long been removed as they were dangerous 

 to boats when the tide was up. 



