586 



PROFESSOR J. C. EWART 



has in part sprung from the same coarse-headed variety which played a chief part in 

 the making of the great English Shire horse. 



I have much pleasure in expressing my indebtedness to the Scottish Society of 

 Antiquaries for allowing me the opportunity of studying the skulls and other bones 

 of horses found during the exploration of the Newstead fort ; and in tendering my 

 grateful thanks for valuable help to Mr James Curle of Priorwood, Melrose, to Mr 

 George Macdonald, LL.D., of the Scottish Education Department, to Professor 

 D. J. Cunningham, F.R.S., of the University of Edinburgh, and to Professor 0. 

 Charnock Bradley, D.Sc, of the Royal Veterinary College, Edinburgh. I may add 

 that but for the information gained from experiments, towards the cost of which con- 

 tributions were received from the Earl of Moray Research Fund of the University 

 of Edinburgh and from the Carnegie Trustees, it would not have been possible to 

 arrive at the general conclusions set forth in this paper. 



Table I. 



Skull. 



Jg 



2 * 

 > 3 



>> 



JO 



> s 



03 O 



e Variety, 

 ky's Horse.* 



.§•{3 



3 - 



03 



& . 



3 a- 



"5 S. 



2 « 



of 



Is 



P 

 £o2 



So 



3- _ 



o o 



: S 



£'2 

 ^=P3 



en 



6D„ 



3 s . 



2 t< 







3 



O 



Em 



02 



02 «? 



H 



Oh 



03 5 



s § 



Oh 03 



o> t3 



*> S3 



£ B 



Cn o 

 Oh 



P 



Oh 



<1 



O 



so- . 



g "3 



3 & 



H 



SO 



03 



a>0- 



13 

 w 



Total length, 



547-0 



506-0 



560-0 



518-0 



494-0 



534-0 



485-0 



530-0 



562-0 



583-0 



562-0 



678-0 



Facial length, 



373-0 



336-0 



399-0 



371-0 



338-0 



372-0 



333-0 



368-0 



389-0 



412-0 



385-0 



463-0 



Frontal width, . 



228-0 



206-0 



223-0 



187-0 



185-0 



203-0 



192-0 



2050 



218-0 



212-0 



221-0 



2370 



Frontal index, 



61-2 



61-3 



50-3 



50-9 



54-1 



54-0 



57-6 



557 



56 



51-4 



57 4 



511 



Cranium : length, 



194-0 



165-0 



165-0 



167-0 



156-0 



182-0 



170-0 













„ width, 



106-0 



105-0 



96-0 



99-0 



108-0 



102-0 



100-0 









... 





Cephalic index, . 



67-2 



63-6 



58-1 



60-0 



69-2 



66-0 



58-8 













Orhital index, 



93-0 



96-8 



90 



80-8 



82-0 



80-8 



94-9 



86-5 





72-3 



80-8 



79-0 



* The frontal and orbital measurements and indices of these three skulls are taken from a paper communicated to 

 the Royal Society, November 1906, by Prof. O. Charnock Bradley, D.Sc, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxvii. pp. 

 46-50. 



