A harnessed horse that was frozen in time when Vesuvius erupted have been discovered

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The animal was tall, well-groomed and had a saddle fitted with richly decorated bronze trimmings
It died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD which destroyed Pompeii and the town of Herculaneum
The eruption produced hundreds of tonnes of lava and toxic gas which killed and petrified the animal  
It was found in the grounds of a villa in a Pompeii suburb which say may have belonged to a military general

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