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Description: | 1650-1750. Rusty iron, fair size, key hole, horse shoe usually used chiefly on draught horses. Length 129mm, Width 125mm, Thickness 16.2mm, Weight 568g. Key hole shaped internal edge, which occured when chamfered heel-ends were brought closer together. The shoe has a concave surface next to the foot and a convex surface on the underside. Square-cut heel plan with fair size calkins and fullering extends all around the shoe. Nail holes obscured by rusty nails in situ. Rusty condition but complete. Ref. Old Horseshoes, Shire Album 19, Ivan. G. Sparkes, Shire Publishing, inner cover and page 17-22 and Detector Finds 3, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 1997, page 40-41.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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