Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig. 19 fig. 20 markedly undulated; the nail-head is also of the Celticpattern. The length of the shoe, according to the scale,is about 4^ inches, and the width 3 inches. The spur isundoubtedly very antique (fig. 20). M. Castan has seen the half of a horse-shoe, which hadthe sinuous border and the usual number of holes, as wellas a calkin, extracted from a Gallo-Roman villa at Egli-series, in the Jura, on the same level from which a coinof Marcus Aurelius ( 161) was gathered. This villaappears to have been destroyed
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig. 19 fig. 20 markedly undulated; the nail-head is also of the Celticpattern. The length of the shoe, according to the scale,is about 4^ inches, and the width 3 inches. The spur isundoubtedly very antique (fig. 20). M. Castan has seen the half of a horse-shoe, which hadthe sinuous border and the usual number of holes, as wellas a calkin, extracted from a Gallo-Roman villa at Egli-series, in the Jura, on the same level from which a coinof Marcus Aurelius ( 161) was gathered. This villaappears to have been destroyed in the second articles in bronze and iron accompanied it, and allwere covered by a thick bed of rubbish, consisting chieflyof tiles and Roman pottery. In 1842, M. de Widranges met with an iron horse-shoe in the ruins of a Gallo-Roman habitation, in Sauvoy. 144 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. (Meuse), amongst a heap of tiles with the characteristicborder of the period, pottery, cinders, and fuel (fig. 21). This shoe had eight holes, thewavy margin, and one of itssides so greatly expanded as tocover one-half the sole. Thiswas no doubt a pathologicalshoe, intended to cover andprotect an injured part of thefoot, and perhaps also to retainsome healing application. Itslength is 5^ inches, and width 4 inches. In 1848, a shoe identical with the primitive modelwas found beside a coin of Trajan, in the foundation ofa new hospital at Tonnerre, by M. Dormois, a distin-guished archaeologist. And the Calvet museum containsa small, wide-covered shoe, with a triangular space betweenits branches. It was found in clearing away the theatreof Orange, in 1834, on a Roman pavement. The remains of Celtic farriery have also been foundin Switzerland. In the Canton Vaud, at Chavannes, is amound named the hillock of Chatelard {motte de Chate-lard), which M. Troyon
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