03-06-2007, 12:19 AM
What seems most plausible is that shoeing was invented by numerous armorers in different places at about the same time, and then kept as a military secret for a very short time -- until the practice was apparently widespread. Strong suggestion that shoes were not invented before 480 comes from Artis veterlnariae by Vegetius Renatus in that year. Blalne (1802) notes: 'Vegetius... though he accurately enumerates everything connected with an army forge makes no mention of any apparatus for shoeing horses, nor any artificers for that purpose." Anyone who wishes to claim that horseshoeing was invented long before the late Middle Ages will need to explain why royal tombs did not contain them, and why there would be no written mention of such a momentous invention for so many hundreds of years. Just how long could such a clearly visible 'secret' be kept?What seems most plausible is that shoeing was invented by numerous armorers in different places at about the same time, and then kept as a military secret for a very short time -- until the practice was apparently widespread. Strong suggestion that shoes were not invented before 480 comes from Artis veterlnariae by Vegetius Renatus in that year. Blalne (1802) notes: 'Vegetius... though he accurately enumerates everything connected with an army forge makes no mention of any apparatus for shoeing horses, nor any artificers for that purpose." Anyone who wishes to claim that horseshoeing was invented long before the late Middle Ages will need to explain why royal tombs did not contain them, and why there would be no written mention of such a momentous invention for so many hundreds of years. Just how long could such a clearly visible 'secret' be kept?
and now this? Was the oriinal photo I showed actually a horse shoe? It does NOT have a flat surface but rather cureved which would not provide for a flat surface for the hoof and really how could it be fixed to the horse in a secure way without moing around and hence creating a confident feel?
anyone hwo has horses understands how 'unconfident' they feel about their footing.
So once again, is that artefact really a horse shoe?
and now this? Was the oriinal photo I showed actually a horse shoe? It does NOT have a flat surface but rather cureved which would not provide for a flat surface for the hoof and really how could it be fixed to the horse in a secure way without moing around and hence creating a confident feel?
anyone hwo has horses understands how 'unconfident' they feel about their footing.
So once again, is that artefact really a horse shoe?
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