288 



HORSE-SHOES JND HORSE-SHOEING. 



the horse is shod in the most unequivocal manner, each 

 hoof exhibiting three nails. 



fig. Ill 



In another (Plut. 2278), representing a group of 

 Anglo-Saxon equestrians, all the horses are represented as 

 shod, the shoes having calkins, and retained on the hoofs 

 apparently by four nails on each side. 



In the Cottonian collection is another manuscript 

 (Nero C. 4), with a series of illustrations of the life of our 

 Saviour, in which is a royal cavalcade, whose horses' feet 

 are all protected with shoes ; and also a picture of the flight 

 into Egypt (fol. 7), where the mule or ass has its hoofs 

 yet more distinctly armed. In the same volume is an 



