Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . e 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, a learned Swiss antiqu
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . e 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, a learned Swiss antiquarian,believed to be a place for sacrifices, for on examining ithe found nearly five hundr-ed bones of animals. Amongthe iron articles discovered in this mound, there werespurs, bridle-bits, and horse-shoes. These last, five innumber, are of small dimensions and very primitive work-manship. They have no calkins, and the holes, three oneach side, have, as with the shoes of Alesia and elsewhere,distorted the sides of the metal. The nails are thicker in FRENCH MUSEUMS. HI. the stalks or bodies than those now in use, and have thehigh, fiat head which for a longtime would serve the purpose ofa calkin (fig. 22). The museum of Nantes con-tains nine shoes with wavy bord-ers. Two of these were foundin the river Erdre, near Nantes,in 1827, during the constructionof the Orleans bridge ; the others have been extracted from the bed of the Vilaine, in theneighbourhood of Rennes, and from a tumulus nearPousanges. The museum of Troyes, near Paris, possesses threeshoes, two with undulated edges and six nail-holes. Thethird shoe is evidently more modern, and is very peculiarand fanciful in shape ; being a modification, or ratherexaggeration, of our cutting the canal, and weredescribed by M. ThioUet at theFrench Archaeological Congressassembled at Troyes in 1853 In the museum of Cluny,near Lyons, there is, says , an undulated, verylight, and very elegant shoe,which was found a
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