Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . ENGLISH SPECIMENS. 3^3. third class is from an excavation in London, and is de-scribed by C. Roach Smith. It differs but little fromthe one found in the Roman camp at Dalheim, and is sixinches in length (fig. 131). The British Mu-seum contains six ofthese mysterious in-struments, one of themmore curious than anyyet discovered. It has _ only one real lateral fig-131 clip, the usual two being quite in front, where they areclumsily united to form a projecting hook. The soleis very narrow, and much oxidized on the ground sur
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . ENGLISH SPECIMENS. 3^3. third class is from an excavation in London, and is de-scribed by C. Roach Smith. It differs but little fromthe one found in the Roman camp at Dalheim, and is sixinches in length (fig. 131). The British Mu-seum contains six ofthese mysterious in-struments, one of themmore curious than anyyet discovered. It has _ only one real lateral fig-131 clip, the usual two being quite in front, where they areclumsily united to form a projecting hook. The soleis very narrow, and much oxidized on the ground sur-face, and the ordinary hook-like termination at the endis present (fig. 132). The others be-long to the threeclasses; one of thefirst has the side clipslong and thin, andlooking as if thehooks had been worn ^^- ^^ or rusted off, and the sole had been repaired by weldingon a thin and narrow strip of iron in shape somewhatlike a horse-shoe. The actual sole is six inches long,but the total length is six and three-quarters inches. Thewidth across at the clips is four and three-quarters inches. T
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