Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig- 58 fig- 59 arrow-head, a fine iron dagger, the handle of which wasmuch damaged. Beside these lay the remains of aleathern girdle, ornamented with metal knobs. In the Grand-Duchy of Luxemberg, there are re-mains of what is known to archaeologists as the Romancamp of Dalheim, which for many centuries have con-sisted in nothing more than substructures, though everything connected with them demonstrates that they ^3 194 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. constitute the debris of one of the most considerableestablishments th
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig- 58 fig- 59 arrow-head, a fine iron dagger, the handle of which wasmuch damaged. Beside these lay the remains of aleathern girdle, ornamented with metal knobs. In the Grand-Duchy of Luxemberg, there are re-mains of what is known to archaeologists as the Romancamp of Dalheim, which for many centuries have con-sisted in nothing more than substructures, though everything connected with them demonstrates that they ^3 194 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. constitute the debris of one of the most considerableestablishments the Romans founded in this region. Manyancient thoroughfares, still known to the peasantry aspagan roads, abut on these ruins. The archaeologists, fromvarious proofs, but chiefly those derived from the pre-sence of coins, attribute the final destruction of thisimportant villa to the barbarian hordes under Attila,about 450. It has proved particularly rich in an-tiquities, which have been referred to the interval be-tween Augustus and the fall of the Roman empire, and
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