Horse shoes? Tied on not nailed?

[Eleatic Guest]

What period are the nailed shoes on display at Corbridge (I think) or one of the other wall museums?

I have been right the way through the collections of the Hadrian's Wall Museums (Housesteads, Corbridge, and the Clayton Collection, which is mainly Chesters) and they are conspicuous by their rarity.

So is there actually an example of a Roman nailed horseshoe? (I note that Fraser, quoted above, gives no proof of his sweeping statement.)

I read a bit about it yesterday and plenty of alleged Roman horseshoes have surfaced over the last hundred years, with a sizable part excavated by professional archaeologists in a clear Roman find context. However, there are at least as many counteropinions forwarded so that the whole topic has become pretty polemical. The clear terminus ante quem is the 7th-9th century AD, earlier finds beginning with the Celts are hotly debated.

To give you a taste of the back and forth, footnote taken from Lynn White:

Dictionnaire d'archeologie chretienne et de liturgie, vi (1924), 2056. G. Carnot, Le Fer cl cheval cl travers l'histoire et l'arcMologie (Paris, 1951), reviews the earlier literature and is convinced by nothing before the ninth-tenth century. Since then M. Hell, 'Weitere keltische Hufeisen aus Salzburg und Umgebung', Archaeologia austriaca, xii (1953), 44-49, and H. E. Mandera, 'Sind die Hufeisen der Saalburg romisch?', Saalburg-Jahrbuch, xv (1956),
29-37, defend early datings, whereas L. Armand-Caillat, 'Les Origines de la ferrure a clous', Revue arcMologique de l'Est et du Centre-Est, iii (1952), 32-36;
P. Lebel, 'La Ferrure a clous des chevaux', ibid. 178-81; F. Franz, 'Kannten die Romer Hufeisen?', Der Schlern, xxvii (1955), 425, and M. U. Kasparek,
'Stand der Forschung iiber den Hufbeschlag des Pferdes', Zeitschrift fur Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie, vi (1958), 38-43, agree upon the ninth-tenth century.

A cautious pro by an expert can be downloaded here: Erwin Ruprechtsberger - Hipposandalen und Hufeisen. Die Hufeisen aus dem Ennser Museum