COLNEY AND LONDON. 



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iron spear-heads, and ' a horse-shoe of unusual sliape ' — 

 round and broad in front, narrowing very much back- 

 wards, and having its extreme ends brought almost close 

 behind, and rather pointed inwards, with the nail-holes 

 still perfect.' ' No drawing accompanies this description. 



In making a deep excavation at Lothbury, London, in 

 1 847, at a depth of 16 feet below the surface, the workmen 

 came upon a number of Roman reUquicr, consisting of 

 iron keys, Samien and other pottery, and various other 

 articles, amongst which was an iron horse-shoe (fig. 88). 

 It is of the usual fashion of 

 that epoch, is only three inches 

 six-eighths long, three inches 

 five-eighths wide, and about 

 three-quarters of an inch at 

 the broadest part of the toe. 

 It narrows very much towards 

 the heels, and there are but 

 faint traces of calkins. The 

 one branch is a little longer ^' 



than the other, and altogether the specimen is thin and 

 light. The peculiar shape of this horse-shoe, the depth 

 at which it was discovered, and its being mingled with 

 undoubted Roman remains, proves that it must be of 

 high antiquity, pointing to the Roman-British period as 

 the age of its fabrication.^ 



Another shoe of the same character was found in 

 Moorfields, in the line of the old London Wall, some 



' Archseologie, vol. xiv. p. 4. 

 Journal of the Archaeological Association, vol. vi. 



