1 86 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



the time when the last owner of that place fought for 

 Charles le Temeraire against the Swiss and their allies. 

 The size of the shoes of these various epochs is not the 

 only thing to consider in the determination of the species, 

 for the dimensions must necessarily have varied a little. 

 Nevertheless, it is very remarkable that those of the first 

 period scarcely vary, and they might be confounded with 

 the shoes of mules and asses found sometimes with the 

 more noble steed. Certain small light shoes, bearing the 

 characteristics just described for each epoch, may have 

 belonged to some palfrey or hackney ridden by a young 

 Gaul or Gallo-Roman, as well as to the steed of the fiery 

 Clidtelaine of the middle ages. 



' This notice of the horse-shoes which have been worn 

 in the Jura in ancient times is far from being complete; 

 and it has no other merit than furnishing specimens of 

 ascertained origin, and offering as closely as possible 

 types rather than exceptions, for we have been careful to 

 choose those for our drawings which represent the most 

 characteristic and usual forms.' 



In Belgium, shoes of this ancient type have also been 

 discovered. In making a road at Jodoigne, in a cutting 

 at a certain depth from the surface, some Roman pottery 

 and four of these plates were discovered in a bronze vase. 

 They were described by M. Schayes, who remarks : ' The 

 horse-shoes were, like the pottery, in perfect preservation. 

 I believe them to be of Roman origin. They are less 

 regular in form than our modern shoes, and are no 

 more than from 4 to 4J inches long, and 3J and 4 

 inches wide. The vessel containing these was supposed to 

 be no older than the 15th century, and it was surmised 



