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HORSE-SHOES AND HORSE-SHOEING. 



inches ; the width between the side clips is four and a 

 half inches, though the sole before and behind these is 

 much narrower. This specimen is also much corroded, 

 and the terminal hooks at the extremity of the side clips, 

 if they ever were present, have disappeared. The face of 

 the front hook is worn, as if it had been rubbed on the 

 ground, or against some hard substance. The sole has 

 transverse and longitudinal grooves. One side, as shown 

 in this copy from a photograph, is much more v/orn than 

 the other. The side clips are wide and have a slight 

 twist inwards towards the front. One identical in shape 

 with this was found in London, and is represented in the 

 'Archaeological Journal' (vol. xi. p. 416). Another has 

 been found at Langton, Wiltshire, and two discovered at 

 Camerton are now in the museum of the Bristol Philo- 

 sophical Institution. 



Another example of the third type, resembling, in all 

 its essential features, those found at Dalheim ; Abbaye 

 Wood, France ; and in London, was picked up in the 

 neighbourhood of Zazenhausen, near Stuttgart, among 

 the roots of an old tree which was being removed. This 

 was in a place where it appears the Romans had been 

 really settled, for the remains of Roman baths, as well as 



a number of arms and 

 such-like articles of un- 

 doubted Roman origin, 

 have been gathered there. 

 It consists of a ground 

 plate (fig. 135), corre- 

 sponding, as Grosz ' informs us, with the form of a horse's 



' Op. cit. p. 13. 



