268 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



Then follows a list and valuation of the appliances of 

 a Celtic smith : — 



'The tools of a smith, six-score pence : 



The large anvil, three-score pence : 



The brick-orne anvil, twelve pence : 



The bellows, eight pence : 



The smith's pincers, four pence : 



The smith's sledge, four pence : 



A paring-knife (for the hoofs ?— Cammec-pedeyr 

 Keynnyanc), four pence : 



A bore (or punch — Kethraul), four pence : 



A groover (Knysyll), four pence : 



A vice, four pence : 



A hoof-rasp (Carnllyf ), four pence.' 



This enumeration is curious, as we observe in the list 

 several of the articles found in the Druidical mound at 

 Alesia, in Gaul. 



The Dimetian, or ' South Wales Code,' is in some 

 respects similar to that of the Venedotian. ' The pro- 

 tection of the groom of the rein is, whilst the smith of 

 the Court makes four shoes 7vith their complement ofjiails, 

 and whilst he shall shoe the kings steed! "^ The protection 

 of the groom of the rein to the queen was the same. 



The smith of the Court was to have the heads of the 

 oxen and cows slaughtered in the palace, and food for 

 himself and servant from the palace ; as well as the feet 

 of all the cattle,"" and other privileges. The worth of his 

 tools was also six-score pence. 



' Book i. chap. 7. 



' The ancient Welsh used the legs of cow-hides for shoes. In the 

 Venedotian Code^ it is specified that the king's apparitor is to have ' the 



