Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . umthere is also a specimen, pro-cured while making a sewer in1833, in Fenchurch Street,London. Fragments of Ro-man pottery, boars teeth, andother articles, were found withit. It is thin and light, hasthe nail-holes of the characteristic number and shape;narrows a little towards the heels, where there are calkins,and shows marks of wear. It measures four and three-eighths inches long, and four inches wide. It is narroweracross the toe than several of the others examined, andresembles somewhat the third York specimen (fig.
Horse-shoes and horse-shoeing : their origin, history, uses, and abuses . umthere is also a specimen, pro-cured while making a sewer in1833, in Fenchurch Street,London. Fragments of Ro-man pottery, boars teeth, andother articles, were found withit. It is thin and light, hasthe nail-holes of the characteristic number and shape;narrows a little towards the heels, where there are calkins,and shows marks of wear. It measures four and three-eighths inches long, and four inches wide. It is narroweracross the toe than several of the others examined, andresembles somewhat the third York specimen (fig. 90). In August, 1854, there wasdiscovered at Gloucester, at thedepth of some nine or ten feetfrom the surface, and mingledwith numerous fragments ofRoman Jictilia, the outer half ofa strong iron horse-shoe, withone of the large fiat-headednails already described remainingin one of the three holes. It isexactly similar, in size and make, to the last-mentionedshoe. Another shoe precisely like it, but of rather largerdimensions, was met with beneath a Roman road at Inne-. fig. 90 GLOUCESTER. 253 ravon, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, when the old pavementwas being removed to prepare the ground for macadam-izing. This shoe is in the possession of the Society ofAntiquaries of Scotland. Gloucestershire, indeed, has long been famous for theRoman and other ancient remains discovered in it fromtime to time. The town of Gloucester boasts of a highantiquity, it being the Caer Glowe or Glev of the Celts,the termination -urn being afterwards added, euphonuegratia, to form the Glevum, the name by which theRomans designated this large colonial city; subsequentlyit was the Gleow-ceaster of the Saxons. Its importanceto the ancient Britons and Romans may have been owingnot only to its situation on the banks of the Severn, butalso to its proximity to the great iron district of theForest of Dean. It is not to be wondered at, then, thatsome of the finest specimens of farriery I have been ableto inspect
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