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senting themselves with Roman remains, — they were 

 used as sandals for their horses' feet. A large number 

 of archaeologists, — at the head of whom are the Abbe 

 Cochet,' M. Namur," and Mr Roach Smith ;3 and 

 several Continental veterinary surgeons, with others, Pro- 

 fessors Reynal of Alfort,-* and Defays of Brussels,^ MM. 

 Fischer of Cessingen,^ and Bieler of Rolle^ (Swit- 

 zerland) — are of this opinion; while others again, as 

 Professor Quicherat of Chart es, MM. Castan and De- 

 lacroix of Besanqon,^ Captain Bial^ of the French Artil- 

 lery, and M. Quiquerez of Switzerland, are opposed to 

 them, and think that these ardcles could never have been 

 intended for, or worn as, shoes or sandals. Mr Roach 

 Smith, the eminent archaeologist, appears at one time to 

 have held a middle opinion on the subject : ' It has been 

 supposed they were used as temporary shoes for horses 

 with tender feet, and they have been called stirrups ; but 

 both these notions are unsatisfactory.''" Some of these 

 so-called sandals have been found in Gallo-Roman and 

 Frankish graves ; many with Roman remains of various 

 kinds, and others without any accompanying relics. 



Though their forms are varied, yet it will be found 



^ Le Tombeau de Childeric I. 



' Public, de la Soc. Archeol. du Luxemburg, vols. vii. p. 185; xi. 

 p. 92. 



^ Collect. Antiq., vol. iii. p. 129. 



■• Journal Vet. de Belgique, 1853. 



^ Annales de Med. Veterinaire, 1867. 



® Journal Vet. de Belgique, 1853. 



^ Journal de Med. Veterinaire de Lyon, 1857. 



^ Journal de Med. Vet. Militaire, 1866. 



' Megnin. Origine de la Ferrure. 



'° Catalogue of the Museum of London Antiquities, p. 77. 



