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groove is very near the outer circumference of the shoe, 

 and contains four nail-holes on each side ; these are ob- 

 long and small, and a portion of a nail yet remaining is 

 not unlike our present nail. There is no toe or other clip, 

 and the outer circumference of the shoe is thinner than the 

 inner, in such a way that the ground surface is slightly con- 

 vex, and that towards the foot, particularly at the heels, is 

 concave. There are no calkins, and the shoe altogether is 

 coarse and heavy. Though much worn and oxidized, it 

 yet weighs nearly 12 ounces. 



Another specimen, found in excavating for a sewer in 

 Walworth road, London (fig. 156), in 1825, is very simi- 

 lar in shape and character. 

 It was discovered at a depth 

 of I o feet, and from the fashion 

 of a buckle procured with it, 

 is assigned by Mr Syer Cum- 

 ino; ' to the first half of the 

 1 7th century ; though I am 

 inclined to give it an earlier 

 date. It is of large size, with 

 a wide surface grooved or fullered very near the margin, 

 and apparently had eight nail-holes. The heels were furn- 

 ished with thin calkins, and near one of them occurs the 

 letters HI. A shoe of the same kind was dug from a 

 depth of 12 or 14 feet, in making a sewer in Kennington 

 Lane, London. From their scarcity, they do not appear 

 to have been in very great repute, and are found along 

 with the square-holed shoe. 



The period of Edward III. and his gallant son, the 



' Journal of the Archaeoloo-ical Association, vol. vi. 



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