South Shields, animal bones

The antlers and bones of the Cervus Megaceros, or extinct Irish elk, occurred in a brickyard of Messrs R.W. Swinburne & Co., at South Shields, near which is the ancient Heortedun. They are now in the Sydenham Palace, and were found in a compressed stratum of dry peat, which lay beneath two feet of ordinary soil and a seam of clay twelve feet thick. Miket assumes these bones are prehistoric.