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08-14-2013, 06:23 PM
Lots of things coming into the news at the moment...

Horse "shoes" in London:

http://horsetalk.co.nz/2013/08/13/roman-...z2by1DKp17

And "Commodus' Gladiator mini colleseum" :-o

http://news.discovery.com/history/archae...gn=rssnws1
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08-14-2013, 06:42 PM
They are not true horse shoes but hippo sandles and may well have been used on oxen or other cloven hooved animals surely.
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08-14-2013, 08:21 PM
That's why I put "shoes" the way I did.

I know that, you know that, one hopes the archaeologists at the City of London knows that. Joe Public tends not to, though :wink:
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