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HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



fourteen hands high. From circumstances connected 

 with their discovery, they were surmised to be at least a 

 thousand years old. 



Some years ago there were found in a graveyard in 

 Berkshire (already alluded to by Mr Cuming) three 

 horse-shoes accompanied by purely Saxon remains. 



Drawings of these and their ac- 

 companying relics are now in the 

 possession of Mr C. Roach Smith, 

 and to him I am indebted for per- 

 mission to copy the former. It will 

 be seen that one of the shoes (fig. 

 fig. io8 " 1 08), the smallest (4 inches in 



length and width), is of the primitive type, and still retains 

 a nail; while the other two (figs. 109, iio) are com- 



fig. 109 



lifi. no 



paratively large and heavy, one with calkins, the other 

 without ; both have the even border, and but little to 

 distinguish them from mediaeval horse-shoes. The occur- 

 rence of these two varieties in the same place, along with 

 unmistakable Saxon relics, testifies that they were both in 

 use at this period, and reminds us of the Prankish speci- 



