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is black, as all iron work is when just from the hammer. 

 The specimen weighs only 4^ ounces, and is 4J inches 

 long, and 3! inches wide. The calkins are rolled-over in 

 the 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 was 

 very hot. There is nothing to indicate that the shoe had 

 ever been placed on the bick or beak-horn of an anvil to 

 give it its shape. The round holes pierced for the passage 

 of the nails appear to have been punched through when 

 the iron was in a cold state, as the round holes in the 

 horse-shoes are made at the present day in Syria, Turkey, 

 and the East generally. These apertures are only six in 

 number, and there is no indication of attempts at raising 

 a toe-clip. Both surfaces of the shoe are plane, and the 

 workmanship is not of a very high order, but appears to 

 have been executed in a hurried manner. 



The other shoe I examined had been found a short 

 distance from it. It is very perfect, though slightly worn 

 (it had been on the left fore foot), is precisely similar in 

 figure, size, and other particulars, and is made of excellent 

 iron. Accompanying these two shoes was a most in- 

 teresting specimen ' found on the surface of the ground, 

 on a high hill, one of the Cotswolds, which has been 

 recently ploughed up by permission of the owner, who 

 on that occasion discovered this shoe. The hill is in the 

 parish of Haresfield, and is known as Broadborough 

 Green, or Ringhill ; and the spot where it was found is 



' I am deeply indebted to J. D. T. Niblett, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., of 

 Tuffley, near Gloucester, for an inspection, and the particulars connected 

 with the discovery of these three specimens. 



