Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . examined theseAlesia specimens, and found many, if not all, with the un-dulating border. Shoes, we have seen from Mr RogerssHistory, were largely bought in England ready made, andby the hundred, and many of these may have been im-ported. In Mercers History of Dunfermline, it is statedthat in the 15th century, Flemish horse-shoes were indemand in Scotland: Flanders was the great mart inthose times, and from Bruges chiefly, the Scots importedeven horse-shoes, harness, saddles, bridles, cart-wheels, & those found with
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . examined theseAlesia specimens, and found many, if not all, with the un-dulating border. Shoes, we have seen from Mr RogerssHistory, were largely bought in England ready made, andby the hundred, and many of these may have been im-ported. In Mercers History of Dunfermline, it is statedthat in the 15th century, Flemish horse-shoes were indemand in Scotland: Flanders was the great mart inthose times, and from Bruges chiefly, the Scots importedeven horse-shoes, harness, saddles, bridles, cart-wheels, & those found with the groove round their margin,so far as I can learn, have been of comparatively largesize. One here represented (fig. 155) was found at Spring-head, near Gravesend (England).Its measurement indicates thatit would fit a tolerably well-bredhorse about 15^ hands high, or acoarse-bred one of a less length is 5 inches, width 4^inches ; the breadth is variable ;fig-155 ^ at the toe and one of the quarters it is i^ inch, and at the heels as much as 1^ inch. The. GROOTED SHOES. 427 grooVC is very near the outer circumference of the shoe,and contains four nail-holes on each side; these are ob-long and small, and a portion of a nail yet remaining isnot unlike our present nail. There is no toe or other clip,and the outer circumference of the shoe is thinner than theinner, in such a way that the ground surface is slightly con-vex, and that towards the foot, particularly at the heels, isconcave. There are no calkins, and the shoe altogether iscoarse and heavy. Though much worn and oxidized, ityet weighs nearly 12 ounces. Another specimen, found in excavating for a sewer inWalworth road, London (fig. 156), in 1825, is very simi-lar in shape and was discovered at a depthof 10 feet, and from the fashionof a buckle procured with it,is assigned by Mr Syer Cum-ing to the first half of the17th century; though I aminclined to give it an earlierdate. It is of large size, with
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