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Description: | 1750-1815. Forged, wrought iron, complete, fair size, tongue horseshoe (1700-1815). Length 112mm, Width 130mm, Thickness 10mm, Weight 260g. This has a 'U' or tunnel-like shape inner edge plan with a relatively wide frog and heels wide apart - usually used on riding horses. Four, rectangular shaped nail holes in each branch and traces of fullering which would indicate a later date. There are rounded heels and no calkins present. Complete but rusty surface corrosion. Ref. Detector Finds 3, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 1997, page 40-41 and Old Horseshoes, Shire Album 19, Ivan G. Sparkes, Shire Publishing 17-21 & Inside cover.
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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