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73.

4.4.45, cont.  Rathcoffey, Clongowes Wood Co. KD., cont.
                      
of a Giant-Deer skeleton lay - the head having been ploughed up already. 

On removing the overturned sods many bones were exposed all lying in the flat surface of the underlying greyish marl.  

The following is a rough sketch of some of the bone which did not appear to have been disturbed by the plough.
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radius
Scapula
left canine!
3rd rt. excisor!
mandible - rib resting across teeth
metatarsal
1st phalaxa
Scapula with shells under it - resting on spine!
Humerus - head of humerus broken!
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Odd vertebrae, two first ribs, many other rib, 1st cervical vetebra, exterior malliolus 3 coffin bone, several 1st & 2nd phalanges, scappoid-calonid & fragments of skull &c. in same area but +/- disturbed by plough.


74.

4.4.45 cont.

The section over the field ploughed & in a trial trench dug by me in next field to W. which had obviously never been under cultivation, was as follows:-

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Surface black humus
Marl with very few shells but Pl. glabra (2) & Limnaea pereger (1) seen near top;  passing down into sandy blue clay getting finer & bluer as one digs down
9 inches to 1 ft.
Transition later with Deer bones resting on surface of marl 2" to 3"
3 ft. at least bottom not reached!
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On taking out one scapula a compact mass of shells of Pisidia, at least one inch thick, found under it;  it (the scapula) resting on its spine provided a trap for the dead shells drifting along the lake bottom from the S. or SW.  Some shells also seen under edge of one of the other bones, but upper layers of "marl" largely destroyed by actions of roots & worms, which has allowed the black humus to work downwards into it for at least six inches in some places.