Shoe

The left shoe of a modern child's size 11. The upper mostly complete, insole and sole intact with iron hobnails largely complete with one missing. The show shows little signs of wear. The upper is whole cut with a cross-laced vamp seam. The lower 4cm of the seam is still stitched. The vamp seam has been turned inside and the lacing holes are on average 1.2cm apart. There are lacing marks running along each line of lacing holes. The shoe has an inside side seam with part of the lacing arrangements still in situ, the lacing being cut from the upper and then stranded. This closed type of shoe is known as a calceus or closed shoe.