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CHAPTER IV. 



HORSE-SHOES FOUND IN SWITZERLAND : THEIR ANTiaUITY, AND 

 SHAPE. M. aUiaUEREz's RESEARCHES AND OBSERVATIONS. VALU- 

 ABLE INDICATIONS AFFORDED BY THE SHOES AS TO THE BREEDS 

 OF HORSES, AND THE DIFFERENT RACES OF PEOPLE. FORGES IN 



THE JURA ALPS. VERY ANCIENT SHOE. PREVALENCE OF SHOES 



WITH CELTIC REMAINS. ROMAN CAMPS. HORSE-SHOES OF DIF- 

 FERENT FORMS. THE BURGUNDIANS AND GROOVED SHOES. INCREASE 

 OF SIZES. SHOES OF THE MIDDLE AGES : THEIR CHARACTERISTICS. 

 farriers' marks. SHOES FOUND IN BELGIUM. GERMANY. HORSE- 

 LOVING TRIBES. INFERIOR HORSES. ANCIENT HORSE-SHOES OF 

 LARGE AND SMALL SIZES. GROSz's DESCRIPTION. ROMAN CAMP 

 OF DALHEIM. THE BURGUNDIAN GROOVE. STEINFURT. MONUMENT 

 WITH RUNIC INSCRIPTION AND FIGURE OF A HORSE-SHOE. THE 

 BURGUNDII. THE FARRIER AS ARMOURER. THE DWARF REGIN. 

 SAINT ELOy's day AT THE BURGUNDIAN COURT. THE PATRON 

 SAINT. GERMAN HISTORY. WIDE PREVALENCE OF THE GROOVED 

 SHOE. SCANDINAVIA. THE SMITh's ART. GOLDEN SHOES. PEAT- 

 MOSSES AND THEIR CONTENTS. 



In Switzerland, as has been noticed, shoes of the form 

 peculiar to the Celtic, Roman, and subsequent periods, 

 have been found. Those discovered by M. Troyon' in 

 the supposed sacrificial mound of Chavannes, have been 

 described as differing only in the absence of calkins from 

 the majority of those already considered. They were 

 five in number, and very primitive in shape. Their 



Trot/on. CoUiue de Sacritices dc Chavanncs-sur-le-Veyron, p. 5. 



