Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . found with fibulas,a lamp [lucerna), andother characteristicmemorials of the Ro-man ^era, together withits peculiar form, onewould be perfectly-justified in assertingit had quite recently^^ ^ come from the anvil of the blacksmith. It has nev^r been worn, a circumstanceto which its high preservation is partly due; the edgesare ^perfectly clean and sharp, and every stage in itsmanufacture can be readily traced, as there is not thesmallest speck of rust upon it. The iron of which it iscomposed is of the very purest descript
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . found with fibulas,a lamp [lucerna), andother characteristicmemorials of the Ro-man ^era, together withits peculiar form, onewould be perfectly-justified in assertingit had quite recently^^ ^ come from the anvil of the blacksmith. It has nev^r been worn, a circumstanceto which its high preservation is partly due; the edgesare ^perfectly clean and sharp, and every stage in itsmanufacture can be readily traced, as there is not thesmallest speck of rust upon it. The iron of which it iscomposed is of the very purest description, and so whiteand ductile, that it was at first conjectured to be , however, has been ascertained to be owing tothe presence of a somewhat large proportion ofnickel, which has most largely contributed to the ex-emption from oxidation. I am informed that iron ofthis character, with much nickel in it, is found on thesurface of the ground in Wilts. The outside of the shoe An analytical chemist who examined it, informed me that it wasthe rarer metal COTSWOLD HILLS. 255 is black, as all iron work is when just from the specimen weighs only 4^ ounces, and is 4^ incheslong, and 33 inches wide. The calkins are rolled-over inthe usual way ; the immense oval depressions for the nail-heads are stamped nearly through the substance of the shoe,and have been made by a blunt tool when the iron wasvery hot. There is nothing to indicate that the shoe hadever been placed on the bick or beak-horn of an anvil togive it its shape. The round holes pierced for the passageof the nails appear to have been punched through whenthe iron was in a cold state, as the round holes in thehorse-shoes are made at the present day in Syria, Turkey,and the East generally. These apertures are only six innumber, and there is no indication of attempts at raisinga toe-clip. Both surfaces of the shoe are plane, and theworkmanship is not of a very high order, but appears tohave been exec
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