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Leather Shoe Mounted on a Wooden Foot

Roman

English Heritage

English Heritage
United Kingdom

leather shoe, conserved and mounted on wooden foot (modern). When this shoe was found, William Tailford, the excavation foreman, went down to London with the shoe to the Clayton family bootmaker, who made the wooden foot specially for the shoe.

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  • Title: Leather Shoe Mounted on a Wooden Foot
  • Date Created: Roman
  • Location: Chester Roman Fort
  • Type: Shoe
  • Original Source: CHESTERS ROMAN FORT
  • Rights: Trustees of the Clayton Collection and English Heritage
  • Medium: leather; wood
  • Photographer: Bob Smith
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