Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . eadthof 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
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . eadthof 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 foot, and convex to theground surface, and would fit a horse about thirteen or. fig. 107 286 HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. fourteen hands high. From circumstances connectedwith their discovery, they were surmised to be at least athousand years old. Some years ago there were found in a graveyard inBerkshire (already alluded to by Mr Cuming) threehorse-shoes accompanied by purely Saxon remains. Drawings of these and their ac-companying relics are now in thepossession of Mr C. Roach Smith,and to him I am indebted for per-mission to copy the former. It willbe seen that one of the shoes (), the smallest (4 inches inlength and width), is of the primitive type, and still retainsa nail; while the other two (figs. 109, no) are com-
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