Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . ck; such an instrumentwould scarcely be necessary, if at all, with such narrowshoes, which had no concavity between them and thesole, as at a later period. At Uriconium or Viroconium, now Wroxeter, inShropshire, and which was one of the largest and most im-portant Roman towns before its destruction in the middleof the fifth eentury, a fragment of a small horse-shoe hasbeen gathered, but it is so oxidized and imperfect thatnone of its details can be made out. It is now in theShrewsbury Museum. A horse-shoe, supposed to be
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . ck; such an instrumentwould scarcely be necessary, if at all, with such narrowshoes, which had no concavity between them and thesole, as at a later period. At Uriconium or Viroconium, now Wroxeter, inShropshire, and which was one of the largest and most im-portant Roman towns before its destruction in the middleof the fifth eentury, a fragment of a small horse-shoe hasbeen gathered, but it is so oxidized and imperfect thatnone of its details can be made out. It is now in theShrewsbury Museum. A horse-shoe, supposed to be Roman, has been foundat the ancient Conderum, Northumberlandshire. Thereis a drawing given of it in the Archaeologia T^Lliana ( p. 3), but no particulars as to its discovery or itsdimensions. It resembles somewhat, if one can judgefrom the figure, those in the Cirencester Museum and atChedworth, the cover of the shoe being wide, the borderseven, and the foot-surface concave. In the Rolfe collection of the Liverpool Museum is a Gentlemans Magazine, p. 518, REPULSE OF THE BRITONS. 265 shoe four inches long and the same in width, whichevidently belongs to the era of undulating borders, smallcalkins, and nail-holes with deep sockets (fig. 102). Un-fortunately there is no his-tory attached to it. This is all the evidence,so far as I can discover,which we may bring for-ward in favour of shoeingbeing in vogue in Celtic, orpre-Roman, and Romantimes in this country. Thewide extent over whicli theremains of hoof-armature has been traced, the relics, in themajority of cases, accompanying them, and the singularuniformity in size and character of most of the specimens,can scarcely leave a doubt as to the fact of shoeing beingknown at that early stage in our national history. The ancient Britons were, to a large extent, drivenout of England by the Anglo-Saxons, and either fled tothe continent of Europe, where they gave their name toBrittany, or retired to Wales ( 447)—th
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