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HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



years ago. It is about 4^. inches long, has the six oval 

 cavities, and calkins rolled-over and welded (fig. 89). 



In the British Museum 

 there is also a specimen, pro- 

 cured while making a sewer in 

 1833, in Fenchurch Street, 

 London. Fragments of Ro- 

 man pottery, boars' teetJi, and 

 other articles, were found with 

 fig. 89 it. It is thin and light, has 



the 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 narrower 

 across the toe than several of the others examined, and 

 resembles somewhat the third York specimen (fig. 90). 



In August, 1854, there was 

 discovered at Gloucester, at the 

 depth of some nine or ten feet 

 from the surface, and mingled 

 with numerous fragments of 

 Roman Jictilin, the outer half of 

 a strong iron horse-shoe, with 

 one of the large flat-headed 

 nails already described remaining 

 in one of the three holes. It is 

 exactly similar, in size and make, to the last- mentioned 

 shoe. 



Another shoe precisely like it, but of rather larger 

 dimensions, was met with beneath a Roman road at Inne- 



fig. go 



