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borne by a goat, bore the stamp of antiquity ; also the 

 coulter of a plough, a hammer, a horse-shoe, and a spur 

 — these latter were of iron. Founding an opinion on the 

 style of the chandeliers, this group of objects was supposed 

 to belong to the Gallo-Roman or Gallo-Frankish period. 

 The shoe (fig. 19) has six nail-holes, and its border is 



fig. ig 



fig. 20 



markedly undulated ; the nail-head is also of the Celtic 

 pattern. The length of the shoe, according to the scale, 

 is about 4t inches, and the width 3 inches. The spur is 

 undoubtedly very antique (fig. 20). 



M. Castan has seen the half of a horse-shoe, which had 

 the sinuous border and the usual number of holes, as well 

 as a calkin, extracted from a Gallo-Roman villa at Egli- 

 series, in the Jura, on the same level from which a coin 

 of Marcus Aurelius (a.d. 161) was gathered. This villa 

 appears to have been destroyed in the second century. 

 Many articles in bronze and iron accompanied it, and all 

 were covered by a thick bed of rubbish, consisting chiefly 

 of tiles and Roman pottery. 



In 1842, M. de Widranges met with an iron horse- 

 shoe in the ruins of a Gallo-Roman habitation, in Sauvoy 



