Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . but the welding appears to be solid,and the iron of excellent quality. They are compara-tively light, the sole plate being generally the heaviestand strongest part. Springhead, near Gravesend, Kent, so prolific inantiquities belonging to the British, Roman, and sub-sequent periods, furnishes us with two specimens of thefirst and second models. These, through the obligingkindness of Mr Sylvester, I have been allowed to inspectvery carefully. Figure 133 has the oval or pear-shapedsole with the wide opening in the middle. O
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . but the welding appears to be solid,and the iron of excellent quality. They are compara-tively light, the sole plate being generally the heaviestand strongest part. Springhead, near Gravesend, Kent, so prolific inantiquities belonging to the British, Roman, and sub-sequent periods, furnishes us with two specimens of thefirst and second models. These, through the obligingkindness of Mr Sylvester, I have been allowed to inspectvery carefully. Figure 133 has the oval or pear-shapedsole with the wide opening in the middle. One of theside clips has been oxidized completely through, andthe other has been temporarily repaired; it is narrow,and the height is three and seven-eighths inches. Thepoint of the hook inclines inwards. The sole is wornand oxidized to a thin edge in front, and is thickerbehind towards the hook. The specimen is little morethan an aggregation of rusty flakes ; its length, not includ- SPRINGHEAD SPECIMENS. 315 ing the hook at the extremity, is five and a half inches, and. fig-133 the width across the sole between the clips is four and ahalf inches ; behind this part it contracts very consider-ably, and in bending slightly upwards expands a 134 is altogether a larger instrument. Its
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