AN INHUMED GALLO-ROMAN HORSE IN THE CEMET ERY OF NOTRE-DAME-DU-BON-ACCUEIL (2ND CENT. AD, RODEZ, AVEYRON)

The complete connected skeleton of a gelding above twelve years old, w as excavated in a gallo-roman cemetery of Rodez (France). The horse wa s lying on its left-hand side, with its head directed to the West and its limbs flexed. Reaching nearly 1,40 m at the withers, the animal wa s slenderly built and exhibited lesions including deforming and ankylo sing spondylosis, fusion of the metacarpals and mild ring bone of the fore digits.