"Numerous horns of red-deer have been found in the peaty mud, generally (as I was informed) at 5 or 6 feet below the surface, seldom deeper; many attached to the skull, others separate, and with the appearance of having been shed naturally. What is most remarkable, several of those which were found with the skulls attached had been _sawn off_ just above the brow antlers--not broken, but cut off clean and smoothly, evidently by human agency. Some of these horns are of large size, measuring 9 inches round immediately below the brow antler.... "Numerous posts of oak-wood, shaped and pointed by human art, were found standing erect, entirely buried in the peat." _Pile Structures at London Wall._ On December 18th, 1866, General Lane Fox, F.S.A., read a paper at the Anthropological Society, entitled "A Description of certain Piles found near London Wall and Southwark, possibly the remains of Pile-Buildings." The author commenced by observing that his attention was directed to this locality by a short paragraph in the _Times_ of the 20th October 1866, stating that upwards of twenty cart-loads of bones had been dug out of the excavations which were being made for the foundations of a wool warehouse near London Wall. The excavation in question commenced at 40 yards south of the street pavement; therefore, in all probability, at about 70 or 80 yards from the site of the old wall. The area excavated at the time of General Lane Fox's visit was of an irregular oblong form, 61 yards in length, running north and south, and 23 yards wide. A section of the soil consisted of-- "1. Gravel similar to Thames ballast at a depth of 17 feet towards the north, inclining to 22 feet towards the south end. "2. Above this, peat of unequal thickness, varying from 7 to 9 feet. "3. Modern remains of London earth, composed of the accumulated rubbish of the city." Regarding the remains of piles, the author makes the following important observations:-- "Upon looking over the ground, my attention was at once attracted by a number of piles, the decayed tops of which appeared above the unexcavated portions of the peat, dotted here and there over the whole of the space cleared. I noted down the positions of all that were above ground at the time; and as the excavations continued during the last two months, I have marked from time to time the positions of all the others as they became exposed to view.