Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fair and entire as when the workmen took it up. Therewere deers horns, an iron knife with a bone handle, too,all excessively rotten, taken up along with it. BracyClark described the bit in his Treatise on Bits. Hoare asserts that the majority of the Wiltshire bar-rows, of which this Silbury Hill was undoubtedly one,were the sepulchral memorials of the Celtic and firstcolonists of Britain ; and some may be ascribed to thesubsequent colony of Belgae who invaded the ^ plainly indicates that this immense cairn
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fair and entire as when the workmen took it up. Therewere deers horns, an iron knife with a bone handle, too,all excessively rotten, taken up along with it. BracyClark described the bit in his Treatise on Bits. Hoare asserts that the majority of the Wiltshire bar-rows, of which this Silbury Hill was undoubtedly one,were the sepulchral memorials of the Celtic and firstcolonists of Britain ; and some may be ascribed to thesubsequent colony of Belgae who invaded the ^ plainly indicates that this immense cairn musthave been erected before the arrival of the Romans; forthe Roman road which traverses this county, and whichpasses in a tolerably direct line, when it reaches the moundturns out of its course to avoid it, and in doing so cutsthrough a large barrow in its vicinity, part of which isyet standing between the avenue and the hill. It was inthe vicinity of this mound that these shoes were met with. Gough. Camdens Britannia.^ Pop. Antiquities of Wales. OLD HORSE-SHOES. 243. fig. 80 The person who presented them to Mr Clark, says of the first shoe (fig. 80) that it was found upon the down on the opposite side of the road, at the distance of nearly half-a- mile from the place where the other shoe was found, under a heap of flints. These flints, it is probable, were taken at some former period from the above spot, and w^ere deposited upon the down, probably for mending the roads; for, from the perfect accordance and similarity of both these shoes, in their peculiar make and fashion, says Bracy Clark, and from other circumstances, there can be no reasonable doubt of their having been constructed at the same period, and in all probability belonged to the same animal, the one being a hind, and the other a fore shoe, and of nearly the same size. They had also perfectly similar nails. Being looked upon by the labourers who removed the flints as mere old iron, they were passed unnoticed by
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