Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . alheim, 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,
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . alheim, 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. The others are somewhat different in length and Catalogue of the Museum of London Antiquities, p. 77, Antiqua, vol. iii. p. 314 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. width. One from the Bridge of Reignac, belonging tothe second class, and presented by M. Picot to Sir J,Lubbock, by whom it was given to the museum, mea-sures six inches long, three and a half wide, and theheight of the front hook is two and three-quarters is inscribed Fer de Cheval. Two of the specimensexhibited have the flat strips of iron forming the clipswelded on to the sole, which in one of them is only two andthree-eighths inches wide. To compensate for this want ofbreadth, these project a little from each side before beingturned upwards at an acute angle. The ground-surface,as already mentioned, is notched or furrowed in variousdirections. The workmanship of all of them is veryrough and primitive, but the welding appears to be solid,and the iron of excellent quality. They are compara-tively light, the sole plate being generally the heaviestand strongest part.
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