Fiddle Key Nail
Also called: Fiddle Key
A fiddle-key nail is a type of medieval horseshoe nail. It gets its name because its head looks like the tuning peg (“key”) of a fiddle or violin.
- Shape: a square-sectioned shank with a flat head, wide from side to side but thin from front to back, giving a T-shaped outline.
- How it worked: the head sat in the shoe’s nail holes and stood proud of the shoe, giving the horse extra grip, a bit like a stud.
- Date and use: it goes with the early “wavy-edged” horseshoes common in England from about the 10th or 11th century to the 13th century. Later horseshoes used nails with different, more rectangular heads.
- Archaeological value: because the type belongs to a fairly specific period, a fiddle-key nail can help date the layer it’s found in.
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