Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . of the wheels, this was sup-posed to be about 37 inches, minim. 31inches for the wide wooden ones; thethickness of the felloes w^as from i to i|- inches. Theseremains of the car showed workmanship not coarse andheavy, as we might suppose, but fine, light, and veryadvanced. Most important, however, was the discovery,beside the relics of a horse, of two pieces of a bronze fig- 7 128 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. horse-shoe which had been worn through at the toe (fig. 8). M. Megnin, a com-petent judge, and from whose,descr
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . of the wheels, this was sup-posed to be about 37 inches, minim. 31inches for the wide wooden ones; thethickness of the felloes w^as from i to i|- inches. Theseremains of the car showed workmanship not coarse andheavy, as we might suppose, but fine, light, and veryadvanced. Most important, however, was the discovery,beside the relics of a horse, of two pieces of a bronze fig- 7 128 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. horse-shoe which had been worn through at the toe (fig. 8). M. Megnin, a com-petent judge, and from whose,description I have freely trans-lated, saw these fragments at theBesanc^on Archaeological Muse-um. Many other tombs have furn-ished, with the debris of arms,cuirasses, girdles, and collars ofboars teeth, various articles simi-lar to the preceding, and among them the characteris-tic kelt (fig. 9), together with iron nails with a flathead {clef de violon), which had served to attach horse-shoes, as in fig. 10, of the same origin, and in which threesimilar nails are yet fig. 8
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