Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . de; and the hole for the reception of the nail-shankis nearly circular, and has a diameter of tth inch: cer-tainly the nails must have been very thick for the smallhoofs shoes of this kind would fit. The weight of thisexcellent specimen is 3 ounces 7 drachms; so that theentire shoe may be calculated to have weighed about 5ounces. There are no retaining clips, and the groundand hoof surfaces are flat and rough, as if carelessly andscantily hammered. Springhead, where this antiquescrap was found, stands near the Roman Watl


Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . de; and the hole for the reception of the nail-shankis nearly circular, and has a diameter of tth inch: cer-tainly the nails must have been very thick for the smallhoofs shoes of this kind would fit. The weight of thisexcellent specimen is 3 ounces 7 drachms; so that theentire shoe may be calculated to have weighed about 5ounces. There are no retaining clips, and the groundand hoof surfaces are flat and rough, as if carelessly andscantily hammered. Springhead, where this antiquescrap was found, stands near the Roman Watling Street;and from the soil in its vicinity, which is chalky, greatnumbers of coins—many fibula?, some fictilia, etc.—belonging to various periods in the early history of our fig. 84 YORK SPECIMENS. 249 country, but particularly the Roman, have been pickedup during a number of years. The coins are chieflybrasses, some of them very old. Only one gold coin hasbeen discovered—that of the Roman Emperor three, specimens next exhibited (figs. 85, 86, 87). fig-8s


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