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XIX. An Account -of a Stags Head and Horns, found dt Alp«rt } 
in the Parijh of Youlgreave, in the County of Derby. In a 
Letter from the Rev „ Robert Barker, B.D . to John Jebb, M. D, 
Read April 14, 1 7 8 5 . 
A BOUT five years ago, dome men working in a quarry of 
that kind of ftone which in this part of the country we call 
tuft *, at about five or fix feet below the furface, in a very 
folid part of the rock, met with feveral fragments of the horns 
and bones of one or different animals. Amongft the reft, out 
of a large piece of the rock-, which they got entire, there ap- 
peared the tips of three of four horns, projecting a few inches 
from it, and the fcapula of fome animal adhering to the outfide 
of it. A friend of mine-, to whom the quarry belongs, lent 
the piece of the rock to me in the ftate they got it, in which I let 
it remain for fome time. But fufpe&ing that they might be tips 
of the hofns of fome head enclofed in the lump, I determined 
to gratify my cuiiofity by clearing away the ftone from the » 
horns. On doing which I found that the lump contained 
a very large flag’s head, with two antlers upon each horn, in 
very perfect prefervation, inclofed in it. 
* Tuft is a ftone formed by the depofit left by water palling through beds 
«>f fticks, roots, vegetables, &e. of which there is a large ftratum at Matlock 
Bath, in this county. 
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