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 roded, and the two smallest were broken. The 'Burgundian' groove was present in the four specimens, and was continued from one extremity to the other. This mode of fullering is not now practised in this part of Europe. The least of these articles appears to have had six holes and no calkins; but M. Fischer represents the largest as furnished with nine apertures, and two square, wellformed calkins. M. Namur, the archæologist who described the antiquities found in the camp, asserts that they each had eight holes. In 1852-3, the excavations being continued, a small shoe of the same shape was found, but it had only four nailholes; and in 1854-5, the same antiquarian rescued several more, but they did not, it appears, differ from the others. M. Namur gives no drawings or descriptions of them, but merely states that they were of the ordinary form, and were found associated with Roman reliquæ of various kinds and dates.

It may be noted that these specimens of antique shoes bear much resemblance to shoes found in various parts of Würtemberg, which Grosz figures, and which will be alluded to presently. He thought they belonged to the middle ages.

It is also somewhat remarkable, that at Steinfurt, in