178 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



Jurassian Society of Emulation is about to publish what 

 we have written on the new discoveries made in this por- 

 tion of our mountains (figs. o^2)-> 34)- 



'Other shoes, aWays like the former, are frequently 

 met with in pastures, forests, and cultivated lands, but 

 constantly a" somewhat considerable depths. They often 

 also mark the ancient narrow^ road-ways, which have ruts 

 worn into the rock, and wdiere the short axle-tree has scraped 

 away the stone at the sides in its passage, at a height 

 of from 12 to 13 inches (Celtic roads). We have 

 rarely found this description of shoes in the Roman 

 camps ; in fact, only on that of Mount Terrible, which was 

 formed on an oppidum; we believe, however, that the 

 shoes from this place belonged to the same category as 

 the Celtic objects of the three ages, and which have been 

 found in such large numbers. Nevertheless, it is very 

 remarkable that one of these shoes has been gathered 

 in the ruins of the castle of Asuel, supposed to have 

 been built in the iith century and destroyed in the 

 15th (fig. '^1,). But it might well belong to an earlier 

 period, as we have found a similar specimen in the 

 walls of the chateau of Sogron, where a horse certainly 

 never planted foot (fig. 0^^). This building dated from 

 the 8th century, and was burned in 1499; in its vicinity 

 we have found a stone hatchet and two Celtic coins of 

 Togirix. 



' We might also mention the discovery of one of these 

 shoes with undulated borders at a great depth near the 

 glass-works of Moutier, on the track of a Celtic road at 

 the entrance to the passes of Court, and also farther aw^ay 

 at the level of the river Byrse (fig. 52). We have seen 



