Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . Romanspossessing such an instrument to facilitate the travelling oftheir carriages; but I do not remember any mentionbeing made as to their discovery anywhere; and in alllikelihood we have them here. I am aware that in asepulchral bas-relief found at Langres, representing, amongother objects, a cart drawn by three horses, two chains areseen attached to the body of the carriage, and in front ofthe hind wheel, one with a ring, the other with a hook atthe end to lock round the felloe between two of the spokes,and make a fet
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . Romanspossessing such an instrument to facilitate the travelling oftheir carriages; but I do not remember any mentionbeing made as to their discovery anywhere; and in alllikelihood we have them here. I am aware that in asepulchral bas-relief found at Langres, representing, amongother objects, a cart drawn by three horses, two chains areseen attached to the body of the carriage, and in front ofthe hind wheel, one with a ring, the other with a hook atthe end to lock round the felloe between two of the spokes,and make a fetter for the wheel. So says Mr Rich; butthis kind of contrivance would, one is inclined to think,be of as limited application in the Romano-Gallic days asnow. It is a most expensive way of staying the velocityof a carriage. The shape of the supposed sandals presentsbut little difference from that of the skid or wheel-shoe otnow-a-days, except, perhaps, in length. The drawing of one of those attached to the waggonsof the Military Train will make this manifest (fig. 137).. fig-137 330 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. The resemblance to some of the sandals of the first andsecond classes is very striking, particularly those figuredby Professor Defays; that by M. Namur, found at Dal-heim (fig. 114); that in the Cluny Museum ; the onefound at Serupt in 1846, and the specimen in the Besan-qon Museum. Some allowance must be made for thevery large diameter of the modern wheels, which neces-sitates a longer shoe (though the London carriages ofi:er agreat many varieties as to form and length in thesearticles), but the sole of the one here represented measuresabout three inches across between the clips—the width ofseveral of the sandals. The Roman wheels of smalldiameter and coarse workmanship would vary much inthe thickness of the felloes and width of the hoops, whichwill readily account for the irregular width of many ofthese so-called sandals, and also, perhaps, for their differ-ence in
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