Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig. 82 fig. 83 a nail-head worn down to the surface of the shoe. Beck-hampton, we must remember, is near the Druidical circleor temple of Abury, the western avenue of that structureextending towards this village ; and that the stupendousmound of Silbury is within the plan of Abury, and mayhave been a component part of the temple. It is some-what remarkable that this portion of Wiltshire, so famousfor its ancient British monuments, should furnish such anumber of these primitive horse-shoes. Three-fourths of a shoe, in ex
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig. 82 fig. 83 a nail-head worn down to the surface of the shoe. Beck-hampton, we must remember, is near the Druidical circleor temple of Abury, the western avenue of that structureextending towards this village ; and that the stupendousmound of Silbury is within the plan of Abury, and mayhave been a component part of the temple. It is some-what remarkable that this portion of Wiltshire, so famousfor its ancient British monuments, should furnish such anumber of these primitive horse-shoes. Three-fourths of a shoe, in excellent preservation, andevidently of the same period, was found at Springhead,near Gravesend, Kent, some years ago, and is now in thepossession of Mr Sylvester of that place. It was foundimbedded in compact chalk, and, from its appearance,has been scarcely worn; it had broken through at oneof the nail-holes soon after being fastened on the hoofFrom the situation of this relic, and the accompanyingremains, there can scarcely be a doubt as to its belongingto the ,
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