Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . THE CAMP OF DALHEIM. 195. fig. 61 roded, and the two smallest were broken. The Bur-gundian groove was present in the four specimens, andwas continued from one extremity to the other. Thismode oi fuUering is not now practised in this part ofEurope. The least of these articles appears to havehad six holes and no calkins ; but M. Fischer representsthe largest as furnished with nineapertures, and two square, well-formed calkins. M. Namur, thearchaeologist who described theantiquities found in the camp,asserts that they each
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . THE CAMP OF DALHEIM. 195. fig. 61 roded, and the two smallest were broken. The Bur-gundian groove was present in the four specimens, andwas continued from one extremity to the other. Thismode oi fuUering is not now practised in this part ofEurope. The least of these articles appears to havehad six holes and no calkins ; but M. Fischer representsthe largest as furnished with nineapertures, and two square, well-formed calkins. M. Namur, thearchaeologist who described theantiquities found in the camp,asserts that they each had eightholes.^ In 1852-3, the excava-tions being continued, a smallshoe of the same shape wasfound, but it had orAj four nail-holes ;^ and in 1854-5, the same antiquarian rescued severalmore, but they did not, it appears, differ from the Namur gives no drawings or descriptions of them, butmerely states that they were of the ordinary form, andwere found associated with Roman reliquce of variouskinds and dates. It may be noted that these specimens of antique shoesbear much resemblance
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