"It is however worth mentioning that this fragment from a Scottish
crannog exactly reproduces the contour of a fragment from the
Starnberger See. (See Memoir on this "find" in the _Archiv für
Anthropologie_, viii. 1875.) In both, the angle of the jaw has been
knocked away, for the sake, doubtless, of the soft and succulent, and
I may add sensitive, substances it protected during life, and in both
the posterior molar has been left _in situ_, though much worn down. The
posterior molar, however, of the foreign specimen has that superior
development of its third molar, which, if Nathusius (_Schweineschädel_,
p. 49) had not taught us better, might have been referred to
domestication instead of to better food or sexual (male) character.
I owe this specimen to the kindness of J. E. Lee, Esq., F.G.S., and
though I hesitate in the case of the Scottish specimen, I have no
hesitation in referring this one to the wild variety, as indeed it is
referred under the title of _Sus scrofa ferox_ on the label it carried
when it came into my hands.
"The specimens of pigs' bones and of pigs' teeth are numerous, but none
other either of the bones or of the teeth are of the size, strength, or
proportions which would have enabled their owners to hold their own as
wild animals in a country in which the wolf may still have existed.[29]
"The sheep, old dun-faced breed, _Ovis aries_, variety _brachyura_.
One nearly perfect skull of a sheep of the variety which is known as
_brachyura_,[30] from having a short tail, but which also has the
horns of the goat, set on, it is true, with their long axis at a
different angle from that which they have in the true goat, but still
in themselves of very much the same shape. One lower jaw in this series
has the concave posterior boundary, and the sinuosity anterior to
its angle, which goats usually and sheep only sometimes, possess. It
belonged, however, to an immature individual, the posterior molar not
having been evolved, and it cannot be considered to positively prove
the presence here of _Capra hircus_.
"The Red Deer (_Cervus elaphus_) is very abundantly represented in this
series, especially by fragments of horns, some of which bear marks of
having themselves been cut and sawn by other implements, whilst one or
two may possibly have been used, as the tines of red deer so often were
by the early British flint miners, as borers.
"The Roe Deer (_Cervus capreolus_) is only scantily, though
unambiguously, represented in the collection from Lochlee.
"The Horse (_Equus caballus_) is represented by but a single
shoulder-blade; it is of small dimensions relatively to most or all
domestic breeds with which I am acquainted; this applies, however, to
all the domestic animal remains found here.
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