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years earlier. They were found seven feet below the surface, 

 in somewhat peaty soil. The antlers are imperfect. They had 

 about 7+7 prongs, spread 39 or 40 inches, and were broadly 

 palmate. (See Quarterly Journal, GeoL Soc, vol. lix. [1903], 

 p. 80.) According to Newton, fossil remains of elk found 

 in England date from a period subsequent to the Pleistocene. 

 John Alexander Smith {Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vol. ix. [1872], 

 p. 297) mentions more than twenty localities where elk remains 

 have been found in the British Isles, chiefly in southern Scot- 

 land and northern England. 



The fossil antlers here illustrated, although peculiar in shape, 

 are not especially characteristic of a prehistoric type. In his 

 Life Histories of Northern Animals (vol. i., p. 156), Ernest 

 Thompson Seton pictures the antlers of a three-year-old moose, 

 killed at Lake Winnipeg in 1904, which very closely resemble 

 these fossil antlers which had lain for thousands of years 

 in the valley of the Thames. 



