Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . r. In themiddle of the hearth, which occupied the north side, werefound successively a little triangular file, 2^ inches inlength (fig. 11); the fragment of a thick flat file, nearlyan inch in width ; a small chisel i^inch long, intended to be fixed in awooden handle (fig. 12); three ironcinders or scorice; two morsels ofbronze castings about ^ inch thick,one of which was ornamented withround points, executed with the grav-ing tool; a large iron hammer weigh-ing 5 pounds, and still retaining sixiron wedges which had been
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . r. In themiddle of the hearth, which occupied the north side, werefound successively a little triangular file, 2^ inches inlength (fig. 11); the fragment of a thick flat file, nearlyan inch in width ; a small chisel i^inch long, intended to be fixed in awooden handle (fig. 12); three ironcinders or scorice; two morsels ofbronze castings about ^ inch thick,one of which was ornamented withround points, executed with the grav-ing tool; a large iron hammer weigh-ing 5 pounds, and still retaining sixiron wedges which had been used tofix the handle (fig. 13). Not farfrom this hammer-head, under theheap of cinders that extended to the fig. 12 fig. AN ANTiqUARIAN FIND: 131 north-west, lay an iron buckle, composed of two ringstied together by a flap, through which passed a tongueof metal (fig. 14). Then came a fragment of a horse-shoe (fig. 15), furnished with a flat oblong-headed nail(fig. 16); afterwards the blade of an iron knife whichhad lost its point, and was yet 5 inches long (fig. 17)..
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