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HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING.
sented is the thickest we have found; it was associated with more than twenty others mixed up with some Roman remains and coins of the 4th century.
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This variety is found in the middle ages, in the ruins of various castles, as that of Sogron (fig, 45); a circumstance which leads us to think that they commence in the barbarian epoch, and continue during the middle ages, not regularly or as a generally adopted style, but rather as a foreign importation whose origin is unknown.
'Shoes really of the middle ages, and anterior to the