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 horse-shoe which had been worn through at the toe (fig. 8). M. Megnin, a competent judge, and from whose, description I have freely translated, saw these fragments at the Besançon Archæological Museum.

Many other tombs have furnished, with the débris of arms, cuirasses, girdles, and collars of boars' teeth, various articles similar to the preceding, and among them the characteristic 'kelt' (fig. 9), together with iron nails with a flat head (clef de violon), which had served to attach horseshoes, as in fig. 10, of the same origin, and in which three similar nails are yet fixed.

But the most curious discovery made in the tumuli of Alesia was that of a complete Celtic forge, which M. Castan, who presided at the exhumation, thus describes: 'The heights of Alesia terminate towards the north in three