Question: when did we start putting shoes on horses

title: Horseshoe
text: Historians differ on the origin of the horseshoe . Because iron was a valuable commodity , and any worn out items were generally reforged and reused , it is difficult to locate clear archaeological evidence . Although some credit the Druids , there is no hard evidence to support this claim . In 1897 four bronze horseshoes with what are apparently nail holes were found in an Etruscan tomb dated around 400 B.C. The assertion by some historians that the Romans invented the `` mule shoes '' sometime after 100 BC is supported by a reference by Catullus who died in 54 BC . However , these references to use of horseshoes and muleshoes in Rome , may have been to the `` hipposandal '' -- leather boots , reinforced by an iron plate , rather than to nailed horseshoes . 

Answer: answer: Historians differ on the origin of the horseshoe. Because iron was a valuable commodity, and any worn out items were generally reforged and reused , it is difficult to locate clear archaeological evidence. In 1897 four bronze horseshoes with what are apparently nail holes were found in an Etruscan tomb dated around 400 B.C. The assertion by some historians that the Romans invented the `` mule shoes '' sometime after 100 BC is supported by a reference by Catullus who died in 54 BC.
answer: Historians differ on the origin of the horseshoe. Because iron was a valuable commodity, and any worn out items were generally reforged and reused , it is difficult to locate clear archaeological evidence. In 1897 four bronze horseshoes with what are apparently nail holes were found in an Etruscan tomb dated around 400 B.C. The assertion by some historians that the Romans invented the `` mule shoes '' sometime after 100 BC is supported by a reference by Catullus who died in 54 BC, however, the reference may have been to the `` hipposandal '' -- leather boots , reinforced by an iron plate , rather than to nailed horseshoes .