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The Iron Age Horseshoe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2012

J. Ward Perkins
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In the last number of this journal (pp. 9–27) there appeared an article by Dr. Gordon Ward on ‘The Iron Age Horseshoe and its Derivatives’. Dr. Ward has a wide practical knowledge of his subject and a stimulating method of approach, but on some important aspects of his subject there is scope for considerable difference of interpretation. In suggesting certain modifications to the position which he has stated, I should like at the outset to make it clear that I am able to do so largely as the result of the work of publication and analysis undertaken by Dr. Gordon Ward himself, and by his predecessor in this field, Dr. R. W. Murray. I have also to thank Mr. C. F. C. Hawkes for much useful criticism and information.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1941, pp. 144 - 149
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1941

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page 144 note 1 Murray, R. W., Journal of the British Arch. Assoc. n.s. i (1936), 14—33Google Scholar; (1937), 133–44; Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, xxiii (1927), 79–105Google Scholar; Ward, Gordon, Sussex Notes and Queries, vii (1938), 38–43Google Scholar; Trans. Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Soc. liii (1939), 140Google Scholar. See also London Museum Medieval Catalogue, 112–17.

page 146 note 1 London Museum Medieval Catalogue, pp. 38, 51.

page 146 note 2 Cf. Trans, and Proc. Birmingham and Midland Arch Soc. lviii (1934), pl. xivGoogle Scholar, a similar shoe found also at Coventry in association with a fetter-lock of the later Middle Ages.

page 147 note 1 The metalled roads of Belgic Colchester and Maiden Castle were a continental innovation—as, it may be suggested, were the horseshoes that trod them.

page 148 note 1 Information from Dr. R. Blomqvist.

page 148 note 2 N. Lithberg, Schloss Hallwil, Pl. 56, Nos. B, E, H, and J.

page 148 note 3 Winkelmann, Fr., Germania, xii (1928), 135–43Google Scholar, which advances the ingenious theory that these shoes, with their projecting nails, were derived from a Viking device for use on ice. Mr. C. F. C. Hawkes called my attention to this article. See also Schlieben, D. v., ‘Die Hufeisen-Frage’, Annalen für Nassauische Altertumskunde, xx (1884), 334 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 149 note 1 See Soc. Antiq. Report, Maiden Castle, forthcoming.