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HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



horse's skull in the resting- 

 place of a primitive warrior 



(%. 6).' 



In the vicinity of Ham- 

 burg, graves which were sup- 

 posed to belong to what is 

 termed the ' iron period ' were 

 opened, and horses' bones were 

 found. At Nienburg, horse 

 and human bones were met 

 with, mingled together, in a 

 cairn belonging to the same 

 period. 



The Slavonians sacrificed 

 horses on their graves; for the 

 Arabian traveller, Ibn Fozlan, 

 was a witness to this practice 

 in the loth cen- 

 tury, at the fu- 

 neral of a Rus- 

 sian prince. The 

 Lithuanians 

 and S a m o g i- 

 tians did the 

 same ; and the 

 Finn and other 

 Mongolian 



races, among which may be reckoned the Tschuds, 

 generally buried their horses with the dead. The re- 

 mains of horses are very often found in the graves of 



fig. 6 



' Das G^rmanische ToJlenlager Bei Selzen. Plate 8. Mainz, 1848- 



