Horses were once used to work in cranberry bogs and salt marshes. To prevent the horse sinking and getting stuck in the soft soil, bog shoes of cut wood were strapped onto the horse’s hooves. Bog or marsh shoes worked in the same manner a snow shoe works. The bog shoe is big and has holes and a slot made to receive protrusions on the horse’s shoes which were bolted to secure.
Fred Young, a local weir fisherman, might have used these shoes on his horse while collecting his catch from his weirs off Point of Rocks beach in Brewster.
Donated by Henry N. Foster
