Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . One side, as shownin this copy from a photograph, is much more worn thanthe other. The side clips are wide and have a slighttwist inwards towards the front. One identical in shapewith this was found in London, and is represented in theArchaeological Journal (vol. xi. p. 416). Another hasbeen found at Langton, Wiltshire, and two discovered atCamerton are now in the museum of the Bristol Philo-sophical Institution. Another example of the third type, resembling, in allits essential features, those found at Dalheim; AbbayeWo
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . One side, as shownin this copy from a photograph, is much more worn thanthe other. The side clips are wide and have a slighttwist inwards towards the front. One identical in shapewith this was found in London, and is represented in theArchaeological Journal (vol. xi. p. 416). Another hasbeen found at Langton, Wiltshire, and two discovered atCamerton are now in the museum of the Bristol Philo-sophical Institution. Another example of the third type, resembling, in allits essential features, those found at Dalheim; AbbayeWood, France ; and in London, was picked up in theneighbourhood of Zazenhausen, near Stuttgart, amongthe roots of an old tree which was being removed. Thiswas in a place where it appears the Romans had beenreally settled, for the remains of Roman baths, as well as a number of arms andsuch-like articles of un-doubted Roman origin,have been gathered consists of a groundplate (fig. 135), corre-sponding, as Grosz informs us, with the form of a horses Op. cit. p. STLTTGART. 317 sole; into it is riveted three studs, or we might termthem calks, about half-an-inch high, the foremost ofwhich is placed in the middle of the toe of the plate,and the other two are placed on each side behind. Fromboth sides of the back part springs a clasp or band asis usual in this type, about an inch broad, which inclinesforwards and upwards, uniting in the middle, about twoinches above the ground plate, to form a round eyeletor ring, through which Grosz supposed a thong wasdrawn. There is a hook for the same purpose at therear of the plate, this veterinarian observes; thoughwhether the article served as a so-called pathologicalshoe for diseased hoofs, as a temporary expedient whenhorses had lost a shoe, or whether destined for hoofs whichwere too much worn to be shod, he could not decide. After an inspection of so many of these articles, whichare apparently Roman, or belonging to the Roman per
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