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II.—On a Skull of Bos Primigenius Perforated by a Stone Celt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

James Carter
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In 1863 the skull and a portion of the skeleton of a large extinct species of Ox (B. primigenius), which had been found in the peat of the Cambridgeshire Fens, and which apparently had been killed by a celt, was placed in the Woodwardian Museum at Cambridge. At the time of its deposition there a portion of the flint remained firmly fixed in a fracture in the frontal bone, being partially retained in sitû by a mass of peat: as, however, this peat gradually dried, it crumbled away, and the celt became loosened and displaced; moreover, some small fragments of bone fell away from the margin of the wound, so that in its present condition the specimen merely exhibits an irregular fracture in the forehead, in which a fragment of a flint implement lies loosely; but it no longer furnishes conclusive and positive evidence to prove that the fracture was actually caused by the celt which occupies it.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 1 , Issue 11 , November 1874 , pp. 492 - 496
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1874

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1 In a short notice read before the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, on February 23, 1863, and published in the “ Antiquarian Communications ” of that Society, vol. ii. no. xiii. p. 285, 1864, Professor C. C. Babington expresses himself most positively on this point, and asserts his confident belief that the celt could not possibly have been recently placed in the skull.