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horse-bit, axes, billhooks, and spearheads, and some associated
remains of animals, such as antlers of red deer, skulls and other
bones of the horse, ox, dog, and wild pig, and also a portion of a
human skull,
An enlarged photograph of the ancient oak dug-out boat found
in these Reservoirs in 1900, and now in the British Museum, is
exhibited; there are also shown fragments of the wood and iron nails
from a second boat, the so called " Viking Ship," a clinker-built
vessel about 40 feet in length, which was found in a disused channel
of the River Lea during the excavation for the Lockwood Reservoir.
At the head of the staircase will be seen a key-plan which
indicates the exact spots where these relics were discovered.
Round the walls of this room (and also on the staircase walls)
are cases of British birds, those which occur in the Forest being
indicated by a small red dot.
The table cases in the centre of the room contain a large series
of the nests and eggs of British birds, with illustrations of the birds
themselves.
THE LOWER ROOM.
On the walls of this room are some attractive pictorial groups
of some of the smaller mammals and birds of the Forest.
There are also examples and illustrations of the beautifully
coloured fungi which are such a feature of the Forest each autumn.
In special vertical floor cases are shown original coloured
drawings, by the late Dr. M. C. Cooke, of the various classes of
flowerless plants, algae, lichens, liverworts, mosses, ferns and horse-
tails.
In the table cases are exhibited a series of common Forest
butterflies and moths, arranged to show the whole life-cycle of the
insects with their favourite food-plants; various species of wasps
with their nests ; a few of the commoner insect-galls which infest
the Forest oaks; a collection of land and freshwater molluscan
shells, such as are found in the Forest and its ponds and streams :
and some of the more characteristic lichens of the Forest.