Iron horseshoe nail

Collection type: Object
Description: Iron horseshoe nail
Long description: Iron horseshoe nail with semicircular head [CG [Excav. PR] 24/01/2013].
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Kent Shepway Folkestone Castle Hill [Caesar's Camp] "Outer rampart" "2 feet 10 inches beneath crest of"
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Medieval
Date collected: 1878 June 10
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Metal, Material Iron Metal, Process Forged (Metal)
Dimensions: Thick: max 8 mm, Width: max 18 mm, Length: max 27 mm, Weight 5 g
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.138.19.5 PR no.: ?615/ 12191
Research and responses: Further information and research notes on this site compiled in the 1970s by Revd. AH Gibson are held at Folkestone Library (see correspondence and copies of Gibson's notes in RDF) [JC 7.11.96]
Associated publications: Pitt-Rivers, A.H.L.F. 1883. Excavations at Caesar’s Camp, near Folkestone conducted in 1878. Archaeologia 47: 429-465 [Dan Hicks 20/03/2013]

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