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Red Deer. (Cervus elephas.) Fragments of horns and 
teeth. — Dowkabottom. 
Sheep. (Oris aries.J Skulls, jaws, and various bones. — 
Dowkabottom. 
Goat. (Copra Mrcits.) Skulls, jaws, and bony cores of 
horns. — Dowkabottom. 
Short -horned Ox. (Bos Taurus.) Skulls, jaws, and 
various bones. — Yictoria and Dowkabottom. 
Horse. (Equus cabattus.) Molar and incisor teeth, coronary, 
metacarpal, and other bones. The lower jaw, with 
teeth, of a foal under four days old. — Victoria and 
Dowkabottom. 
Various bones of birds, as goose, partridge, thrush. — 
Dowkabottom. 
With respect to the antiquity of the mammalian remains 
from these caves, it is a question which cannot be hastily 
decided, as it is somewhat remarkable that although situated 
upon the same range of hills, and only a few miles apart, 
they do not both contain the bones of the same species of 
carnivorous animals. In the Victoria cave, for instance, we 
have the tiger, hyaena, and bear ; while in the Dowkabottom 
cave, the only animals of this order are the wolf, wild dog, 
and fox ; the first two of which have not occurred in the 
former cave. This circumstance might suggest the inference 
that they were not deposits of the same age, the former 
being the most ancient. A singular occurrence, though 
perhaps quite accidental, appears to prove the very opposite 
to have been the fact. In the Victoria cave, containing the 
bones of the supposed primaeval quadrupeds, were found 
coins of Gallienus, Victorinus, Claudius Gothicus, Constan- 
tine, and Constantius, extending down to the Fourth century. 
While in Dowkabottom, in which more recent quadrupeds 
predominate, occurred silver and large brass coins of Trajan, 
belonging to the First century, a.d. 98. As, however, the 
