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James Farrer, Esq., M.P., of Inglebro' House, the most valuable 
and interesting specimen is the upper portion of the skull of a 
mature Roebuck with antlers, indicating its age to have been 
probably six years. During my exploration of this cave in 
1859, I found portions of jaws and skulls of a small species 
of ruminant, which at that period I could not satisfactorily 
identify, as from the size of the teeth I knew they could not 
have belonged merely to young animals. I have now, however, 
no hesitation in assigning them to this animal, and that they 
belonged to mature females. The occurrence of the Eoebuck 
in the Dowkabottom Cave is, therefore, an important discovery, 
as it substantiates the probable antiquity I ventured on a 
former occasion to assign to this cave and its contents, as we 
know this animal was a contemporary of the rhinoceros, the 
mammoth, and the megaceros. Dr. Buckland mentions an 
antler found in the Paviland Cave resembling the roe. 
Professor Owen, in his invaluable History of British Fossil 
Mammalia, says he received remains of this animal from the 
Ossiferous Caves in Pembrokeshire, from a fissure of a limestone 
rock in Caldy Island, off Tenby, Glamorganshire, where the 
capreoline antlers were associated with the remains of the 
rhinoceros tichorhinus, and also from limestone caves in the 
neighbourhood of Stoke-upon-Trent. Almost the entire 
skeleton of a small ruminant agreeing in size and general 
character with the female Roebuck, was discovered in the 
lacustrine formation at Bacton, in Norfolk, with the remains 
of the trogontherium, mammoth, and other extinct animals, 
&c. In a lacustrine deposit of marl, with freshwater 
shells below the peat, at Newbury, in Berkshire, the skull 
and antlers of a Roebuck were exhumed, in which county 
the remains of this animal are not uncommon. In the 
fenland of Cambridge, at 10 feet below the surface, 
antlers of this animal have been discovered. In October, 
1859, while cutting a water-course in the parish of 
