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Roman iron horseshoe
A complete forged/wrought iron wavy rimmed horseshoe. The shoe is crescent shaped. The wavy outside edges consist of two rounded lobes while the inner edge is arched and also slightly correspondingly lobed. Each rounded lobe has a punched sub-oval nail hole in the centre.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
92.59H
Find Information
Site Name: Abbeyfield Extra Care House, Caerleon
Grid Reference: ST 33 91
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1992 / Mar - Apr
Notes: from the GGAT excavations (found by Joyce!)
Acquisition
donation, 8/7/1992
Measurements
length / mm:111
width / mm:106
height / mm:15
Material
Iron
Location
Caerleon: Case 07 Military Fittings
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