Heal Plates?

[OxShoeDrew]

Lately I've been posting finds from the dirt floor of a stlll standing blacksmith's shop. The owner found a pair of heart heal plates there. She asked me about them and all I could tell her was that they were heal plates. It inspired me to look around the internet again to see if there was any new info about these things. When I dug my first one years ago I remember reading all sorts of things about them being CW cavalry, or oldest profession etc. Today I found the following pic on the net. I've never seen any evidence of them being CW related. After I saw this pic of hwo they were attached to a women's heal it occurred to me ALL the heal plates, clovers, crosses etc are from women's heals. They're all small like that...how would they fit on a man's larger heal? The men wore the edge heals I find all the time (pictured around the women's plates I've found). What say you??