🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Info on old horse shoes?

[chelseathayer44805]

I found these metal detecting and the appear to be hand wrought but I’m not sure…can anyone tell me anything about them? Like age, material etc?

 

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[Gare]

I think it is a fairly newer type shoe. The rounded edge has welding on it. I have borium welded on mine for better traction on hard surfaces

 

[chelseathayer44805]

I think it is a fairly newer type shoe. The rounded edge has welding on it. I have borium welded on mine for better traction on hard surfaces

I found both of them about 6 inches down in the woods

 

[Gare]

See that deep cut into the outside. Then there are the nail holes. I believe that shoe was machine forged Some times if the mud is deep it will pull a thoes off

 

[chelseathayer44805]

See that deep cut into the outside. Then there are the nail holes. I believe that shoe was machine forged Some times if the mud is deep it will pull a thoes off

So how new are you thinking? I know there were Amish in the area doing logging in the late 1800s-early 1900s

 

[chelseathayer44805]

So how new are you thinking? I know there were Amish in the area doing logging in the late 1800s-early 1900s

Also what about the smaller one? It doesn’t have that cut and the hole do not line up

 

[chelseathayer44805]

So how new are you thinking? I know there were Amish in the area doing logging in the late 1800s-early 1900s

 

[wildpig]

The bigger shoe is oldest (pre 1880), it looks to be wrought iron, the smaller one is newer.