Show ANCIENT BRITISH HORSES According cor n to a lL note noto 1 by Professor or art Kwart In Nature It h has 15 b been en generally assumed that the native tI British horses at the time of or the thic Roman Invasion were too small to car carry men Against this assumption however had to b ho set ct the tIme old ohl accounts account of or the lie ancient British h war chariots Iota armed with scythes to cut down their theil enemies If Ir tho the Britons po possessed horses horst's sufficient sufficient- urnel nl- nl Iy ly large lahe and powerful to draw such char char- I lots Iota surely th they thOy might also h have hc c ridden them thema It t. t has also been thought that tho the was as not domesticated In Britain until about tho ho end of oC the th bronze or 0 be beginning he- he ginning of or the tho Iron n age e And thi If it the tue atol story of or the ch chariots 1 ts ta true bo ho about the time limo of ot tho the coming o of the lie Romans Ro no- mans n or earlier But tho the remains of or a horse recently discovered at Bishops Stortford and slid considered considered con con- to bo be of neolithic or 01 bronzo bronze 1 age e. e Indicate according to wart Kwart a an ap 1 animal as powerful as tho the Galloways formerly used In border raids And If Ir tho tIm above view Jew of or the ago age of or this interesting fossIl bo ho then them our Ideas as to tho the size of or the horses posse s d bv h th the lie nn- nn Britons B wilt will have h to ho be he modified ac- ac a Tho The skeleton lay IRY In an on undisturbed un disturbed deposit some Bomo six r fet feet H below tho surface but butt thu age of the tho enveloping o nJ strata Is uncertain According to Ewart tho tIme Bishops Bishop Stortford Short Stort ford horse horB closely resembles one omm from rom believed belle to bo be of ot n neolithic or ci- bronze bronzo age It measures however some pome fourteen hands thus titus exceeding the hor horse c In the Lie British museum museum mu mu- seum scum by several cral Incite Inches |