according to Boyd Dawkins and Rütimeyer, was already in the domesticated state.[1] At any rate, the remains of this little ox, which Owen called Bos longifrons because of the great depth of his forehead, have been found in Britain and Western Europe in all kinds of deposits from Neolithic down to the beginning of historic time; and, if he was not brought into Britain in the domestic state, he eventually became the domestic ox of the pre-Roman inhabitants, for no other kind was brought into the country previous to the Roman Invasion. Cattle could only have been imported from the opposite shores of France and Belgium, and there they belonged to the self-same race. Bos longifrons "is the native breed with which we must start in all our speculations as to the origin and development of British oxen. The Romans found that breed here and no other."[2]
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| Bos longifrons, from Sweden. | ||
| [From Nilsson. | ||
