Animals.
Wild boar, two tusks.
Ox, skull and bones.
Sheep, teeth.
Dog, impression of the paw on a brick.
British cattle,[1] one fine complete skull and three detached long horns, found October, 1896, in Water Street, 20 yards from Bridge Street, 12 feet deep in gravel, it was not acquired by the Manchester Museum although I informed it of the find, and is now lost to Manchester.
Land Shells
(Named by Mr. Thomas Rogers).
| HABITAT. | |
| Helix aspersa | common on walls and about gardens. |
| ,,nemoralis | on walls and grassy banks. |
| ,,hispida | hedge banks, under stones, in woods. |
| ,,arbustorum | hedge banks, limestone, woods, and found near walls where nettles grow. |
| Hyalinia (Zonites) cellaria | under stones in shady places. |
These were found on the marshy soil, near Collier Street, under the northern foundation walls of the station. Apparently they were already dead and empty shells when finally deposited in this situation. They must have been swept down from a higher level by rain floods or the current of a rill or brooklet that had its course along the valley or clough existent here at the time. This would
- ↑ The wild bull continued in the extensive woods of Blakeley as late as the fourteenth century (Leland, vol. vii., part i., p. 42, Hearne).
