DISCOVERIES AT DALHEIM. 



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mitted to veterinary surgeon Fischer, of Cessingen, in 

 1 85 1, who, on examining them, gave it as his opinion 

 that they were ' hippopodes pathologiques,' intended to 

 protect and cure hoofs too much worn, through default 

 of shoeing,' This supposed sandal and its mode of 

 attachment were delineated as in the accompanying 

 figures (figs. 112, 113). In 1852-3, the excavations being 



fi.ir. 112 



113 



continued, with many articles belonging to the Roman 

 period were found one ordinary shoe and several of the 

 so-called pathological /er^. One of these belonged to the 

 first description, but no horse's foot, so far as I am aware, 

 was attempted to be fitted into it (fig. 1 14).^ 



In 1854-5, It is again 

 reported that a new form 

 of hipposandal had been 

 discovered, accompanied 

 by another belonging to 

 the second category. ^ Al- 

 lusion is made to the 

 former discoveries : ' Besides some ordinary shoes, there 



' Journal Veterinaire de Belgique, p. 30, 1853. 

 " Op. cit. vol. ix. 3 Op, cit. vol. xi. 



fig. 114 



