A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 187
f ironhorse-shoes in the Koman period, and examples have been foundin France under conditions which make a Roman date almostcertain. The small shoes with wavy exterior edges, which havefrequently been excavated, are probably of this age, and the shoesfound at Silchester must date from the Roman… … Fig. 118.—Incense-boat, fifteenth century. beasts of burden to the same extent. The earliest form of shoewas doubtless a kind of slipper first perhaps of hemp, like thoseworn by Roman oxen in the first century b. c, afterwards of leatherwith a metal ring at the bottom. The now familiar shape…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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