Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . e would consider evidences ofmore recent manufacture. We no longer have the un-dulating border, the long and wide oval depressions, thenarrow cover, the rolled calkins, and the large semicircularnail-heads. The nails and nail-holes are very like thosenow in use; the latter are stamped close to the marginof the shoe, the nails have been driven through the hoof,and the points twisted off and clinched in the usual workmanship is entirely different to that we have beenconsidering, and is much more advanced. One perfe
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . e would consider evidences ofmore recent manufacture. We no longer have the un-dulating border, the long and wide oval depressions, thenarrow cover, the rolled calkins, and the large semicircularnail-heads. The nails and nail-holes are very like thosenow in use; the latter are stamped close to the marginof the shoe, the nails have been driven through the hoof,and the points twisted off and clinched in the usual workmanship is entirely different to that we have beenconsidering, and is much more advanced. One perfectspecimen (fig. 92) measures 3! inches long and 4 incheswide, an imperfect one (fig. 93) 4! inches long and thesame in width, while another half-shoe (fig. 94) is 4|inches long, and must have been equally wide. Thebreadth of it is extraordinary, measuring no less than ifinch, and the shoe when complete must have nearlycovered the whole of the horses sole; it shows four nail- 2^8 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. holes, two of which are occupied by the re,Tiains of
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