Nothing but horse shoes

[Squatty]

These were from a couple weeks ago. I went out behind my house to sweep the acres of woods on my way to a cellar hole I was looking for. I found 4 complete horse shoes of various sizes, and probably 6 or 7 half shoes. Most of those I left there. Also a boot heel and a really old pocket knife. These woods are thick with trees that are over a hundred years old. It's hard to believe that a 100 years ago, this was all farm fields being plowed by men and horses, to make a life and feed a family. I painted the shoes - those will get hung up and displayed somewhere.

 

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[G.A.P.metal]

squatty
First shoe is half an oxen shoe ...but all are cool finds .
Gary

 

[lab rat]

Cool! I've never seen a horse shoe with the heel part strip. What do you know about those?

 

[Squatty]

An Oxen shoe? Do those come in two pieces or did it break? I find lots of the halves but never a whole one.

 

[Squatty]

First one with a crosspiece I had ever seen either.

 

[G.A.P.metal]

An Oxen shoe? Do those come in two pieces or did it break? I find lots of the halves but never a whole one.

Oxen shoe two pieces per hoof...your`s is not broken !
Gary

 

[creade]

I've found a dozen horseshoes this year and about 20+ oxen shoes.I have 2 of those " complete " shoes. I love finding them,never gets old

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Well your racking up the lucky horse shoes! With that much luck no telling what you'll find next! Congrats on the shoes!

 

[Limitool]

squatty
First shoe is half an oxen shoe ...but all are cool finds .
Gary

I have an OLD worn road that runs along the top of a ridge from my home to the Duck River here in Tennessee. About 3/4 of a mile. It used to be the main road (back in the day) from Centerville to Columbia. I started to detect it from my home and mostly I was finding horseshoes. But most of them were "broken" in two. Now I believe there're oxen shoes mostly. I seem to never cease to learn or realize something on this site. Thanks.... Brad

 

[jewelerguy]

nice shoes

 

[RobRieman]

That's really cool! It looks like an early egg bar shoe.

 

[Subterranean]

I have found POUNDS of horseshoes, mule shoes, and oxen shoes also here in the Ozarks. I donated them to a local artist who scrubs them down and makes garden decorations out of them, such as welding four of them together in a shamrock pattern, adding antennae, painting them and making a garden butterfly! Like you said, it never gets old finding them...Sub PS: the fully closed horseshoe is a rarer pattern.