Shoes & Boots 11th century to 16th Century

Extant Shoes & Boots

- Summary of Finds from 11th century to 16th Century

– Looking for the Evidence By Jennifer Baker ( Jenny Baker )

Top Row - Cut shoe from Stockholm Sweden 11th - 12th centuries

Bottom Row - complete leather shoe with hammer-head shaped toe. Decorated with slashes England: London 1550 AD, Medieval Leather Shoe, 15th century St Albans England, Childrens boots with decorative cutting Stockholm Sweden 11th - 14th centuries

Research Disclaimer : Please note that This Research was done many years ago now :

so the information contained may now be out of date , photos gone missing or web links broken

My apologises : But It has become an impossible task to try and keep it up to date - Jenny

You can’t begin to look for Extant shoes with out consulting what has to be considered as the Shoe Bible ….. “ Stepping Through Time ” Archaeological Footwear from Prehistoric Times until 1800 – By Olaf Goubitz

The Book is a fantastic shoe reference with pictures and patterns of shoes, but the biggest problem with the book is that it is sorted by Shoe Type and not by date, place & culture – the info is there, its just hasn’t been cross indexed.

Any references from it will be put as Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: - fig plate no. for the shoes that are in this body of work.

Part 1: covers from very early to 10th century

Part 2: covers from 11th century to 16th century

Part 3: covers from 17th century to 19th century

Summary: Part 2:

11th Century – 54 Shoe / Boot finds

12th Century – 6 finds Shoe / Boot finds

13th Century – 28 Shoe / Boot finds

14th Century – 32 Shoe / Boot finds

15th Century – 13 Shoe / Boot finds

16th Century – 33 Shoe / Boot finds

11th Century – 54 finds

England: London, Baynard's Castle

1066 AD - 1485 AD

Medieval leather shoe.

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=65618&idx=7&fromsearch=true

England: London

1000 to 1300 AD

Medieval shoe in the Museum of London

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246532&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=452680047342&set=a.452677747342.246532.526022342&theater

England: London

1000 to 1300 AD

Decorated leather slippers in the Museum of London

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246532&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=452869062342&set=a.452677747342.246532.526022342&theater

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246532&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=452680052342&set=a.452677747342.246532.526022342&theater

England: London

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Medieval long slipper (Poulaine) with decoration in the Museum of London

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246532&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=452680057342&set=a.452677747342.246532.526022342&theater

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246532&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=452869072342&set=a.452677747342.246532.526022342&theater

Leather boots in the Museum of London

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246532&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=452869067342&set=a.452677747342.246532.526022342&theater

Germany: Schleswig

11th century

Shoe / boot embroidered with silver thread

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 52 – fig.22c

Netherlands: Vlaardingen

11th – 12th century

Ankle shoe – herring bone stitching down the front of the foot

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 52 – fig.22a

Ankle shoe – woolen yarn threaded around the opening

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 52 – fig.22b

Sweden:

Medieval 11th - 12th centuries

Sweden: Blekinge

Medieval 11th - 12th centuries

Boot

http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=324254

Sweden: Närke

Medieval 11th - 12th centuries

Boot

http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=327822

Sweden: Östergötland

Medieval 11th - 12th centuries

Sweden: Småland

Medieval 11th - 12th centuries

Sweden: Uppland

Medieval 11th - 12th centuries

Sweden: Västmanland

Medieval 11th - 12th centuries

Shoe / slipper

http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=314204

Sweden: Västergötland

Medieval 11th - 12th centuries

Cut shoe from Stockholm Sweden

Childrens boots with decorative cutting Stockholm Sweden

Sweden:

Medieval 11th - 14th centuries

A photo collection of medieval Shoes & Boots found in Sweden
Laced boot from Stockholm. Museum of medieval Stockholm
Laced boots from Nyköping. Nyköpingshus
Bootshaft with knotted leather thongs as ‘buttons’. Nyköping, Nyköpingshus
Laced boot with tongue, to keep the snow out. Nyköping, Nyköpingshus
Rather fancy boot. Museum of Medieval Stockholm, Stockholm
Shoe with cut decorations. Nyköping, Nyköpingshus
Cut overpiece. Nyköping, Nyköpingshus
Some shoes with cut over pieces. Nyköping, Nyköpingshus
Very nicely cut shoe from Stockholm. Museum of Medieval Stockholm, Stockholm.
Intricately cut over piece. Lunds Historiska Museum, Lund
An over piece with cut stripes. Lunds Historiska Museum, Lund.
finely cut shoe from Stockholm. Museum of Medieval Stockholm, Stockholm
An ‘open work’ cut over piece. Lunds Historiska Museum, Lund.
Another ‘open work’ cut shoe. Malmöhus Museum, Malmö.
A ‘poulaine’ like shoe. Museum of Medieval Stockholm, Stockholm
A ‘poulaine’ type sole, among other soles, Lödöse museum
Childrens boots with decorative cutting. Museum of Medieval Stockholm, Stockholm
Heavy duty patten with large iron nails and iron plates protecting them. Museum of Medieval Stockholm,

Stockholm

Patten (and last), Malmöhus Museum, Malmö.
Patten, Malmöhus Museum, Malmö.
A rather peculiar sole with leather ‘rivets’ binding layers of thinner leather. Museum of Medieval Stockholm,

Stockholm

http://www.albrechts.se/Library/Pdfer/swedishshoes.pdf

Russia: Novgorod

10th -15th century

Leather shoes & Boots in the Novgorod Archaeological Museum, Russia

http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/Slavic/shoe.html

http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/novgorodleatherp.html

http://www.icon-vienna.net/cms/files/icon2008/praesentationen/Land%20of%20Veliky%20Novgorod/cuven_e.html

12th Century – 6 finds

England: Durham, Saddler Street,

12-13th century AD

turn-shoe upper

http://www.dur.ac.uk/fulling.mill/collections/medieval/?imageid=213

England: London - Swan Lane Car Park

12th – 13th century ?

Medieval shoe – leather http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumoflondon/4543221794/
Medieval boot – leather http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumoflondon/4543221860/in/photostream/
Medieval shoe – leather http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumoflondon/4543221762/in/photostream/

Estonia: Tallinn

1170 to 1248

Large number of Medieval shoes / boots – 8 different types

http://brburg-prussia.ucoz.ru/_fr/0/DS.002.1.01.ART.pdf

Netherlands: Hoogland, Utrecht

12th Century

primitive shoe – lace up

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 17 - Fig.3 (Goubitz 1997b)

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 28 - Fig.1

13th century – 28 finds

England: London

1250 AD

Two pattens made of wood and leather. ( Top one is 18th century) (bottom one ) Wood patten with clenched iron nails holding the iron stand at the back. The patten has a reinforced strap which holds to the carved wedge beneath the ball of the foot. It is dated to the early 13th century.

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=61273&idx=5&fromsearch=true

England: London

13th-14th century

3 Medieval leather shoes - The shoe shown here on the left has openwork designs cut into the leather dates from the early 13th century. The shoe on the foreground with an engraved and scraped pattern of leaves is from the late 14th century. The shoe on the top right has a low-cut front and a long pointed toe. This style of shoe is known as ' poulaine' which means 'Polish'. The toe, as much as 10cm long (4in), was usually stiffened with stuffing of moss or hair, this style was particularly fashionable in London in the 1380s.

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=61268&idx=2&fromsearch=true

England: Thames River in London

1300–1450

shoe : Poulaine of brown archaeological leather

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/29.158.914

England: London, Baynard's Castle, Baynard House, Queen Victoria Street

1330-1350

Brown leather shoe with a slash across the toe and along the side to make room for foot deformities

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/OnlineResources/RWWC/objects/record.htm?type=object&id=310965

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=59582&idx=5&fromsearch=true

England: London, Baynard's Castle Dock, near Blackfriars, London.

1330-1350

Small leather shoe with a pointed toe and leather laces. The upper part of the shoe is made from one single part of leather

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=60933&idx=0&fromsearch=true

England: London, riverside at St. Paul's

1360 AD - 1400 AD

Leather shoe of the late 14th century excavated from the riverside at St. Paul's. The large hole on the front of the shoe, was caused by wear from a bunion which is a swelling of the joint associated with displacemnet of the big toe. This condition was worsened by narrow, pointed or badly fitting footwear, which were very fashionable at this time.

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=61271&idx=6&fromsearch=true

England: East Riding Of Yorkshire

early 13th - 15th Century

Three largely intact shoe soles

http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/198029

England: London

late 1300s

Worn shoe from the late 1300s. Museum of London http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246532&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=453287927342&set=a.452677747342.246532.526022342
Worn shoe from the late 1300s. Museum of London

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246532&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=453287937342&set=a.452677747342.246532.526022342&pid=5992162&id=526022342

Worn shoe from the late 1300s. Museum of London

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246532&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=453287942342&set=a.452677747342.246532.526022342&pid=5992163&id=526022342

Germany: Diepholz - Findspot: Grossen Moor, Landkreis Diepholz

1215-1300. AD

Hunteburg Foot (1938) (inv. No. 1940:38) - (left) shoe, leather,

Netherlands: Deventer

13th century

Ankle shoe / boot with decorative seam down the front of foot

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 51 - Fig.19a

Netherlands: Huissen

13th century

Ankle shoe / boot – painted

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 51 - Fig.20b

Greenland: Western Settlement

c.1350

Sandnes S.361 (Last - Childs? D11720 11x3.5x.4.2 in House I) (Straight?) c.1350 Western Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Sandnes S.362 (Last - Left shoe D11721 26.3x6.5x9.7 in Stable 6VII) c.1350 Western Settlement [note: it is a left turnshoe last, so the arch is reversed from where it would be on a modern welted shoe last]

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Sandnes S.363 (Last - D11722 26.3x6.5x9.7 in Stable 5I) (Straight?) c.1350 Western Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Sandnes S.364 (Last - D11723 27.7x.7x9.0 in Stable 5V, Near sole S.368) (Straight?) c.1350 Western Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Sandnes S.365 (Last - Left shoe D11743 20.6x7 in Stable 6 VII) c.1350 Western Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Sandnes S.366 (Last - Right shoe D11744 25.7 in Stable 6, VII) c.1350 Western Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Sandnes? U.367 (Last D12414 23x9ish. found in VIII) (Straight?) c.1350 Western Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Sandnes S.368 (Sole - Straight. D11854 26x12.2 In Stable 5V, near last S364) c.1350 Western Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Sandnes S.369 (Sole incomplete - Straight. D11855 11 cm wide In House I) c.1350 Western Settlement http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html
Sandnes S.370 (Leather fragments - May be from upper D11856 In House) c.1350 Western Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Sandnes S.371 (2 Soles - same shape, incomplete 25x14.5 in I) c.1350 Western Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Sandnes S.372 (Piece of skin - May be from upper D12416 in III) c.1350 Western Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Farm Beneath the Sands" (Last - Straight. "miniature - toy" GNM 1950x3257 20 cm Long) c.1350 Western Settlement http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Greenland: Eastern Settlement

c.1400

Herjolfsnes H. (Leather scrap) c.1400 Eastern Settlement

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/RESEARCH/greenshoe/greenshoe.html

Russia : Miensk, Polacak

13th – 14th century

1 boot and 4 slippers – very decorated with coloured thread

http://klan-land.livejournal.com/65010.html

14th Century – 32 finds

Belgium: Namur

Late Middle Ages / 14th and 15th centuries (c. 1300–1400).

Leather patten with various stamped motifs on the foot strap & insole

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 50 – fig.16

England: London, Aldersgate Street

1366 AD - 1500 AD

Medieval leather shoe. Child's ankle shoe with front laced. The upper part of the shoe is made on one piece of leather.

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=65625&idx=5&fromsearch=true

England: London

1370-1500

part of a poulaine

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O74164/fragments-of-a/

England: London, Baynard's Castle

late 14th century

Medieval leather shoe – childs

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Permanent/medieval/objects/record.htm?type=object&id=32712

A shoe with a long, pointed toe

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Permanent/medieval/objects/record.htm?type=object&id=142704

England: London

Medieval

Medieval leather shoe, probably an adult, front-latchet shoe with a missing toe. The sole is in a single piece and there is a low-cut vamp (front) from a front-latchet fastening. A bifurcated strap fastening is still attached through two fastening holes. http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/136995
Part of leather shoe sole, probably the heel – child’s shoe http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/116308

England: London

late medieval, early post medieval period

Leather sole of child shoe

http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/108877

Germany: Schleswig

Late Middle Ages / 14th and 15th centuries (c. 1300–1400).

Shoe with throng threaded around the edge

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 50 – fig.17

Germany: Konstanz

Late Middle Ages / 14th and 15th centuries (c. 1300–1400).

Buckle boot reaching to just below the knee

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 23 – fig.3

High shoe with toggle fastening

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 24 – fig.6

Shoe / Boot with medial lace – up fastening

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 17 – Fig.6

Netherlands: Dordrecht

Late Middle Ages / 14th and 15th centuries (c. 1300–1400).

Vamp with gouged and punched decoration

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 49 – fig.11

Vamp with scratched decoration

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 49 – fig.12

Vamp with scraped decoration & excised foliage motifs with a gouged linear design

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 50 – fig.13

Shoe / Boot with frontal lace-up fastening

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 18 – Fig.9

Shoe / Boot with fold closure

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 18 – Fig. 12b

High shoe with lace up fastening

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 24 – fig.5

Ankle shoe / boot - Painted

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 51 – fig.20a

Ankle shoe - Painted with fleur-de-lys design

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 51 – fig.20c

7 Vamps with punched motifs, arranged in transverse designs

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 52 – fig.24

5 Vamps with motifs, in a vertical arrangement with a strip down the middle

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 53 – fig.25

4 Vamps with overall, vertically arranged punched decoration

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 53 – fig.26

4 Vamps with asymmetrically arranged punched motifs

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 53 – fig.27

5 Vamps with uniform punched decoration

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 54 – fig.28

4 Vamps with miscellaneous decoration

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 54 – fig.29

Netherlands: Groningen

Late Middle Ages / 14th and 15th centuries (c. 1300–1400).

High shoe / boot with toggle fastening

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 23 – fig.4

Netherlands: Hoorn

Late Middle Ages / 14th and 15th centuries (c. 1300–1400).

Leather soled Patten

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 17 – Fig. 5b

Netherlands: Lochem

14th century

Shoe with punched decoration

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 50 – fig.14a

Netherlands: Veere

Late Middle Ages / 14th and 15th centuries (c. 1300–1400).

Wooden Patten

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 17 – Fig. 5a ( Goubitz & Hanninen 1996b)

Switzerland: Vevey

Late Middle Ages / 14th and 15th centuries (c. 1300–1400).

Low boot constricted at the ankle with a fold

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 23 – fig.2

Russia Miensk Polacak 13th – 14th century

Russia: Novgorod

14th century

Ladies Slippers with cut out decorations

http://www.novgorodwomen.com/archaeolog.htm

15th Century – 13 finds

Belgium: Huy

15th century

Four fragments from a medieval shoe,

http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwopac.exe?DATABASE=obj2&LANGUAGE=0&OPAC_URL=&%250=10109460

Medieval Leather Shoe, 15th century St Albans England

England: St Albans, Hertfordshire

15th century

Turnshoe

http://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/Users/Members/node_16257/Highlights-from-the-Museum-of-St-Albans/Medieval-Leather-Shoe-15th-century

England: London, Baynard's Castle,

1440 AD - 1460 AD

Brown leather shoe, shaped like a modern pump but with a very long, pointed toe. There is an ankle strap from the front of the heel section

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=61224&idx=1&fromsearch=true

England: London, new Fresh Wharf

1401 AD - 1500 AD

Child's leather shoe.

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=61285&idx=7&fromsearch=true

England: London

mid-late 15th century

Medieval leather fragment of an insole from a multi-soled outer shoe - a patten dating mid-late 15th century

http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/426478

England: London

from c. 1500 AD to modern

Base of a leather shoe, welted construction

http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/132941

England: London

late 15th to early 16th century

Round-toed shoe with slashed vamp (MoL 84.454/13),

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/EventsExhibitions/Permanent/medieval/objects/record.htm?type=object&id=535860

England: London

1485-1509

Henry VII style leather shoe

http://www.bunrattycollection.com/search.php?i=431

France:

15th century;

A child's shoe (Cl. 21150)

http://www.photo.rmn.fr/LowRes2/TR1/9ETRLC/06-527625.jpg

http://www.photo.rmn.fr/LowRes2/TR1/GLPTBI/06-527626.jpg

A shoe with lattice cutwork on the vamp (Cl. 21103),

http://www.photo.rmn.fr/LowRes2/TR1/9Y67MF/02-015414.jpg

Germany: Munchen

15th and 16th centuries

Shoes with cutwork decorations,

http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI02347b07a.jpg

Germany: Nurnburg

15th century

Buttoned boot for a boy (pieces),

http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI07906a08b.jpg

http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI07906a10a.jpg

Netherlands: Haarlem

15th century

Typical 15th century shoe with an early 16th century sole

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 28 – fig.2

16th Century – 33 finds

England: London , Bonhill Street

c.1550

Tudor shoe - The shoe probably belonged to a child considering its size, but what’s really nice is that it features a decorated toe-cap over the vamp and still has the strap and buckle attached.

http://www.mymuseumoflondon.org.uk/blogs/files/2010/04/Shoe-Wed-Paul-Medium.jpg

England: London

1500 AD - 1550 AD

Brown leather shoe with three large slashes across the front and smaller slashes around the opening for the foot.

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=61180&idx=3&fromsearch=true

England: London

16th century

shoe as worn on the stage of the Rose Theatre

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumoflondon/4054666653/

England: London

1570 AD - 1600 AD

3 medieval shoes. The shoe on the left is a woman's welt construction shoe for the left foot with a narrow oval toe, and narrow waisted sole which shows signs of outdoor wear. The high cut vamp has a straight edge, and the decoration consists of three longtitudinal cuts from the toe with two rows oblique slashes along the edge of the throat. The other two shoes are of leather and plain in design.

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=142076&idx=7&fromsearch=true

England: London

1550 AD

complete leather shoe with hammer-head shaped toe. Decorated with slashes.

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=60939&idx=1&fromsearch=true

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=61182&idx=2&fromsearch=true

England: London

1545 AD

Thigh boot from Mary Rose in the Mary Rose Museum

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=241994&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=445437912342&set=a.445431642342.241994.526022342&theater

Shoes from the Mary Rose

England: London

1545 AD

Shoe from the Mary Rose in the Mary Rose Museum

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=241994&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=445494162342&set=a.445431642342.241994.526022342&theater

England: London

1520s-1540s

Broad square-toed shoes with slashed decoration, - V&A

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O74416/shoe/

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O74427/shoe/

England :

c. 1530-1545

Man's shoe (LACMA AC1999.46.39),

http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/MWEBimages/c_t02_mm/full/AC1999_46_39.jpg

England: London

c. 1530-1545

Three 16th century English shoes (Met 29.158.892, 29.158.893, and 29.158.896)

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/29.158.892,3,6

England: Devon, Topsham

16th - 17th century

three shoe fragments, were found within a section of cob-wall above the doorway of a Topsham townhouse

http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/410901

England: Lincolnshire

Post medieval

Leather shoe discovered concealed in an old cottage fireplace. The shoe is more accurately an ankle boot which has eight lace holes set four on either side of the rectangular tongue. At the back of the boot there are two opposing decorative swirls of stitches.

http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/112005

France:

late 16th century

A lady's shoe (Cl. 10402),

http://www.photo.rmn.fr/LowRes2/TR1/CF5VT/85-002012.jpg

Germany:

1500-1520

Kuhlmaulschuh - Cow mouth shoes

http://www.curiousfrau.com/images/stories/research/shoes/Kat_23.jpg

http://www.curiousfrau.com/research/extant-objects/81-shoes-in-16th-century-germany

Germany:

1525.