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THE NORSE CONTINGENT
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The figures show two kinds of bulls, a horned and a hornless. The following illustrations of
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| Burghead bulls. | ||
| [From "The Sculptured Stones of Scotland." | ||
them are copied from "The Sculptured Stones of Scotland."[1] And there is evidence of hornless cattle in Ireland as early as the ninth or the tenth century. In a crannoge near Dunshaughlin, about seventeen miles north-west of Dublin, a considerable number of hornless and other skulls was unearthed in the middle of last century. Some of these are now in the National Museum in Dublin, and one of them is figured here. Sir William Wilde was able to fix the crannoge's range of date at from 848 to 933 A.D.
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| Hornless skull, from the Dunshaughlin crannoge. | ||
| [Drawn from a specimen in the Dublin National Museum. | ||
- ↑ Vol. ii., Plate 23.
