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HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



horse-shoe which had been worn through at the toe 



(fig. 8). M. Megnin, a com- 

 petent judge, and from whose 

 description I have freely trans- 

 lated, saw these fragments at the 

 Besanqon Archaeological Muse- 

 um. 



Many other tombs have furn- 

 ished, with the debris of arms, 

 cuirasses, girdles, and collars of 

 boars' teeth, various articles simi- 

 lar to the preceding, and among them the characteris- 

 tic 'kelt' (fig. 9), together with iron nails with a flat 

 head {clef de violon), which had served to attach horse- 

 shoes, as in fig. 10, of the same origin, and in which three 

 similar nails are yet fixed. 



fig. 8 



fig- 9 



fig. 10 



But the most curious discovery made in the tumuli 

 of Alesia was that of a complete Celtic forge, which M. 

 Castan, who presided at the exhumation, thus describes : 

 ' The heights of Alesia terminate towards the north in three 



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