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 * colspan=3 |Romano-British skull, with upturning horn-cores, from Reach Fen, Cambridge.
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The first to trace the white park cattle and white domestic cattle back to their source was Professor McKenny Hughes, of Cambridge. In the course of excavations "over areas long occupied by the Romans" he found a change coming over the remains of the cattle deposited there. He found evidence of a new breed mingling with the old. "The new breed is larger, the horn-cores are stouter in proportion to their length, and, starting from the side of the head, have a tendency outward and upward, instead of having the strong forward curve of Bos longifrons. All intermediate sizes and shapes are found, from the small native to the new improved breed. &hellip; The specimen I have figured"—the skull figured here—"was found in the peat near Reach Lode,