Note 1117 — Chapter X · THE CULT OF THE HORSE

W. Boyd Dawkins, Cave Hunting, 1874, p. 166. Rev. R. A. Gatty has recorded the discovery of bones of a young horse in Neolithic pit-dwellings near Hornsea, Yorkshire (Chambers’s Journal, 6th Ser., Feb. 1909, p. 109). For the Whitepark Bay discoveries, see Jour. Roy. Hist. and Archaeol. Assoc. of Ireland, 4th Ser., VII. pp. 122-3, 123 n. Professor J. Cossar Ewart thinks that “it is extremely probable that in Neolithic, as in Pleistocene times, Britain possessed several species of wild horses.” (Trans. Highland and Agric. Soc. of Scotland, 5th Ser., XVI. p. 242.) W. F. Gwinnell, in S.E. Naturalist, 1907, p. L. F. Keller, Lake Dwellings of Switzerland, 2nd edition, 1878, I. pp. 592, 595, records, with reserve, the discovery of iron horseshoes at the Early Iron lake settlement at Starnberger See, Bavaria.