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Two unusual horse shoes, with 'tread' forged into them, these could well be from horse boats. Both found in Grand Union canal different locations.

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Max Sinclair

The shoe on the right was for Railway horses on cobbled roads. The frog had a spike ( cog ) which stuck in the gap between stones to aid the horse up hills.In winter shoes were fitted with frost cogs.

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