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Description: | Wrought iron horseshoe of probable post-medieval or modern date (1600-1800). The horseshoe is U shaped in plan with flared and enlarged terminals or heals; in cross section the shoe is sub-rectangular (rectangular with rounded corners). It measures 122.7mm in length, 131.1mm width and is 10mm thick. The horseshoe weighs 351 grams. The frog (internal area between the two branches) measures 69.4mm. The distance between the two heals (terminals) is 54mm and each of the terminals (or calkins) have been upturned. The width of the shoe varies along its length: it has a maximum width of 39.8mm and minimum of 27.6mm. There is evidence of partial fullering on each branch of the shoe. Fullering is the creation of a U shaped groove through which the nail holes were punched. These grooves have been distorted by corrosion. It is possible that there are eight sub-oval nail holes (four on each side or branch) punched through fullered groves; this has again been distorted by the encrusted corrosion.
The horseshoe has an encrusted mid brown / orange coloured corrosion concretion which has laminated in places revealing the dark brown -purple iron beneath. The lamination has affected approximately 35% of the artefact but the iron appears to be relatively stable, in that there are no new areas of light orange powdery rust present. Similar horseshoes have been broadly dated to the seventeenth and eighteenth century, however, the dating of such types is based on stylistic evolution rather than contextual evidence. Types and styles of shoe vary considerably from different geographic regions and so a certain date is impossible to produce. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1600
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Peter Reavill | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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