Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig. 10 But the most curious discovery made in the tumuliof Alesia was that of a complete Celtic forge, which , who presided at the exhumation, thus describes: The heights of Alesia terminate towards the north in three THE BAN-DU-PRETRE. 129 promontories, which are parallel and overhang the of these promontories, situated in the central axis ofthe heights, is covered with tumuli and ruins. This placeis called the Chateleys, and is an immense tongue of land,which rests on a gigantic perpendicular basemen
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig. 10 But the most curious discovery made in the tumuliof Alesia was that of a complete Celtic forge, which , who presided at the exhumation, thus describes: The heights of Alesia terminate towards the north in three THE BAN-DU-PRETRE. 129 promontories, which are parallel and overhang the of these promontories, situated in the central axis ofthe heights, is covered with tumuli and ruins. This placeis called the Chateleys, and is an immense tongue of land,which rests on a gigantic perpendicular basement, 164yards elevation. On the margin of this region, at aplace called the Champs-Mottets, are seen three Celtictumuli built of pebbles, and about 0^^ to 40 feet inlength. TvNO of these were opened simultaneouslv, andwere found completely empty. The third contained acertain number of thick and short bones, which theosteologists have pronounced to be the remains of a bearof the largest species. In the same collection was foundthe half of a cloven foot belonging to a stag
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