The earliest known skates were roughly shaped from the canon-bone of a horse or cow. Scandinavian archaeologists claim an antiquity of 1000 years for them. The wearer obtained speed not by a stroke of the foot, but by pushing himself along with a piked staff.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 256, 29 October 1934, Page 8
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