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Posted on 10/11/2016 3:09:01 PM PDT by fishtank
Vindolanda Roman Fort Yields Hundreds of Shoes
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
NORTHUMBERLAND, ENGLAND—Chronicle Live reports that more than 400 shoes sized for men, women, and children, were recovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda over the summer, bringing the total of shoes from the site to more than 7,000. The 1,800-year-old shoes included ones made solely for indoor wear, boots, sandals, and bath clogs. The footwear was found in a defensive ditch, along with pottery and the remains of cats and dogs. Andrew Birley, director of Vindolanda’s excavations, thinks the contents of the ditches may have been discarded when the garrison withdrew from the fort in A.D. 212, when the war between northern British tribes and Roman forces ended.
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Good timing—when the “Pickles” comic strip is dealing with shoes. Yesterday Earl mentioned his wife’s 200 pairs of shoes.
Hundreds of ancient children’s shoes found in Utah cave shed light on little-known culture
Air Caesars.
The husband of Imeldia Marcosius was stationed there.
Shoes. When the first video footage of the newly found Titanic was released to the media, shoes were visible on the seabed. No bones, having long since been dissolved, but the shoes were still there. Probably preserved by the heavy metals used in tanning.
I knew it wouldn’t take a FReeper more than 10 posts for a reply like that. :D
That's what I came here for.....goes away happy.
My dear ex probably had at lest that number, worn once.
My first thought also.
Gary Larsen would have had a good caption.
7000 pair of Italian shoes. That’s got to be worth a mint.
I like Pickles and Pearls Before Swine
The Utah shoes are the ancient Mormon tribes of old. Smith’s plagurism wrote about those.
Anderson Cooper: “Fabulous!!”
Interesting new find, same site:
Moments after being uncovered, the strap junction still shines because of the airless conditions in which it was preserved. Photograph: Sonya Gallowayrelated topics:
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