Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig. 105 GILLINGHAM SPECIMENS. 28^. the Saxon shape. It is of the same size as the Hod Hillshoe, but has more breadthof iron. The border is notundulated, aud the nail-holes, though large, aresquare; there is no socketfor the nail-head. One side,which has no calkin, hasfour nail-holes; and theother side, which has acalkin formed exactly likethe Roman and Gaulish specimens by doubling over theextremity of the branch, has only three. The iron appearsto be remarkably good and fibrous, and much of the Saxon wea
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . fig. 105 GILLINGHAM SPECIMENS. 28^. the Saxon shape. It is of the same size as the Hod Hillshoe, but has more breadthof iron. The border is notundulated, aud the nail-holes, though large, aresquare; there is no socketfor the nail-head. One side,which has no calkin, hasfour nail-holes; and theother side, which has acalkin formed exactly likethe Roman and Gaulish specimens by doubling over theextremity of the branch, has only three. The iron appearsto be remarkably good and fibrous, and much of the Saxon weapons made of that metal. The othershoe (fig. 107) is almost identically the same so far as re-gards size, but it is ap-parently of more recentdate than the other, thoughstill very primitive. It hastwo calkins raised at theextremities of the branches,and these, though very lowand thin, are formed as inmodern times. Wide at thetoe and sides, it is very nar-row and light towards the heels, has four square nail-holeson one side, and three on the other. Both specimens arevery light, slightly concave to the fo
Size: 1547px × 1615px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookde, booksubjecthorses, booksubjecthorseshoes
