Shoes & Boots Very Early to 10th Century

Extant Shoes & Boots

- Summary of Finds from Very Early to 10th Century

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

top row left to right - Iron age shoe from Hallsatt Austria, Viking boot from Oseberg ship, Caliga from the French National Archaeological Museum, Wijster shoe

Bottom Row left to right - 5,500-year-old lace-up moccasin from Armenia, Tollgate Farm Roman shoes, Weerdingerveen shoe

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so the information contained may now be out of date , photos gone missing or web links broken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 1:

Very Early – 85 Shoe finds

Late Roman / Iron Age – 33 Shoe / Boot finds

1st century – 18 Shoe / Boot finds

2nd century – 31 Shoe / Boot finds

3rd century – 16 Shoe / Boot finds

4th century – 10 Shoe / Boot finds

5th Century – 3 Shoe / Boot finds

6th Century – 5 Shoe / Boot finds

7th Century – 10 Shoe / Boot finds

8th Century – 3 Shoe / Boot finds

9th Century – 134 Shoe / Boot finds

10th Century – 8 Shoe / Boot finds

Very Early : 85 finds

5,500-year-old lace-up moccasin (the world’s oldest leather shoe)

Armenia:

5,500-year-old lace-up moccasin (the world’s oldest leather shoe)

http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-shoe-moccasin.html

http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/oldest-shoe-pictures.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10281908http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areni-1_shoe

Iceman's shoes

Austria: Tisenjoch Glacier Mummy - Iceman's shoes

3,200 B.C

http://home.hccnet.nl/willy.groenman/

http://mr_sedivy.tripod.com/iceman4.html

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 380 & 381 fig 1

An Iron Age shoe from the salt mines at Hallstatt

Austria: Hallstatt

8th-3rd BCE

Leather shoe made from one piece of leather, from the ancient saltmine at Hallstatt (8th-3rd BCE). Length: 24 cm

http://www.lessing-photo.com/dispimg.asp?i=07010127+&cr=6&cl=1

Austria: Hallstatt

8th-3rd BCE

A piece of leather, from the ancient saltmine at Hallstatt (8th-3rd BCE). ( shoe?)

http://www.lessing-photo.com/dispimg.asp?i=07010128+&cr=13&cl=1

Austria: Hallstatt

10th – 6th BCE

A miner's leather shoe and a cowhorn for signalling calls, from the prehistoric salt mine in Hallstatt, Austria. Salt was mined in Hallstatt as early as 1000 BCE and mining continued until about the first century CE. It was resumed in the 12th century.

http://www.lessing-photo.com/dispimg.asp?i=07020355+&cr=26&cl=1

Austria : Hallstatt & Durnberg

Prehistoric

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 392 fig 23

Austria : Durnberg

Prehistoric

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 392 fig 24

Denmark:

The oldest footwear in Denmark are found in oak tree cists from the Early Bronze Age. In several of these have been found remnants of leather shoes, and in two cases (Jels and Skrydstrup - respectively.'s and women's Tomb) was so large pieces preserved that they have been based on a reconstruction of the shoe. It consists of an elongated piece of leather that has been folded around the foot, ie. without any real soles. In front of the foot is leather slotted up, and the shoe is assembled over the instep with a cord that is pulled through a series of holes in it as a modern ballet. Laces are then tied a couple of times around the arch and attached over the instep or omrking ankle. The shoe heel is combined with a vertical seam. In one grave (Guldhøj) was found a piece of a shoe, made of woven wool. Unlike leather shoes that had a separate outer sole and the upper part was sewn on. In Skrydstrup-girl's shoes, there were traces of grass, which has been soft and comfortable to walk on. In several of the oak tree cists are also found the so-called fodlapper, ie. rectangular pieces of wool fabric that has been wrapped around the ankle and lower leg as a sort of stocking. From Iron Age bog known more shoes of a roughly similar type as the Bronze Age.

http://www.guderoggrave.dk/

Denmark: Borum Eshøj

1345 BC - Early Bronze Age II period (ca. 1500-1300 BC)

Shoes, 2. Leather - Mus.nr. B1407 - Borum Eshøj

Denmark: Borremose

700 BCE - Late celtic – Early roman iron age

Cutting pattern of a primitive shoe with a leg part extension

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 94 fig. 7

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 39 http://io.ua/8521387p & 50 http://io.ua/8521402p

Denmark: Guldhøj

1389 BC - Early Bronze Age II period (ca. 1500-1300 BC)

Shoes. Textile - Mus.nr. B5068 - Guldhøj

http://www.guderoggrave.dk/images/10/20-21/1021980.jpg

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 16 http://io.ua/8521361p

22 (mitten shoe) http://io.ua/8521367p

Denmark: Skrydstrup

c. 1300 BC - Early Bronze Age II period (ca. 1500-1300 BC)

Shoes. Leather - Mus.nr. B12965 – Skrydstrup

http://www.guderoggrave.dk/images/10/20-21/1021814.jpg

http://www.guderoggrave.dk/images/10/20-21/1021776.jpg

Shoes. Leather - Mus.nr. B12966 – Skrydstrup

http://www.guderoggrave.dk/images/10/20-21/1021786.jpg

http://www.guderoggrave.dk/images/10/20-21/1021776.jpg

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 14 http://io.ua/8521359p

& 15 http://io.ua/8521360p

Denmark: Jutland - Arnitlund

? Prehistoric / primitive

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 44 http://io.ua/8521394p

Shoe cutting patterns

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 389 fig 19

Denmark: Jutland - Fraeer Mose

? Prehistoric / primitive

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 36 http://io.ua/8521383p & 50 http://io.ua/8521402p

Shoe cutting patterns

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 389 fig 19

Denmark: Jutland - Holbol Mose

? Prehistoric / primitive

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 35 http://io.ua/8521381p & 50 http://io.ua/8521402p

Shoe cutting patterns

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 389 fig 19

Denmark: Jutland - Jels

1300 – 1000 BC - Late Bronze Age, Period IV (ca. 1100-900 BC)

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 11 http://io.ua/8521356p & 12 http://io.ua/8521357p & 13 http://io.ua/8521358p

Shoe cutting patterns

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 389 fig 19

Denmark: Jutland - Ronbjerg Mose

? Prehistoric / primitive

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 37 http://io.ua/8521384p 38 http://io.ua/8521386p & 50 http://io.ua/8521402p

Shoe cutting patterns

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 389 fig 19

Denmark: Jutland - Rishjarup

? Prehistoric / primitive

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 45 http://io.ua/8521395p

Shoe cutting patterns

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 389 fig 19

Denmark: Jutland - Sogaards Mose

Early Bronze Age II period (ca. 1500-1300 BC)

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 35 http://io.ua/8521381p & 50 http://io.ua/8521402p

Shoe cutting patterns

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 389 fig 19

Denmark: Jutland - Store Borremose

Early Iron Age

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - 43 http://io.ua/8521392p

Shoe cutting patterns

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 389 fig 19

Denmark: Vivso Mose

? Prehistoric / primitive

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 41 http://io.ua/8521390p & 50 http://io.ua/8521402p

Denmark: Ramten - Orbaekgaards Mose

? Prehistoric / primitive

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 42 http://io.ua/8521391p

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 103 http://io.ua/8521469p

Egypt:

1279-1213 BCE

Sandals of Queen Nefertari, From the tomb of Nefertari, Valley of the Queens. Plant fibre

http://www.lessing-photo.com/dispimg.asp?i=08012168+&cr=9&cl=1

France: Louisianne

Prehistoric / primitive ?

Bear Paws used as shoes

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 21 http://io.ua/8521366p

Germany: Paradiek, Ardof, Obenaltendorf and Marx- Etzel

Prehistoric

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 390 fig 20 a

http://www.nihk.de/index.php?id=2254

Germany: Bentstreek

Prehistoric

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 390 fig 20 b

Germany: Elisenhof

Prehistoric / primitive ?

16 shoes found here

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 94 http://io.ua/8521454p

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 95 http://io.ua/8521456p

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 96 http://io.ua/8521457p

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 98 http://io.ua/8521461p

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 100 http://io.ua/8521465p

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 101 http://io.ua/8521466p

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 102 http://io.ua/8521468p

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 103 http://io.ua/8521469p

Germany: South Schleswig, Holstein – Aegyptenmore

Prehistoric / primitive ?

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 52 http://io.ua/8521405p

Germany: South Schleswig, Holstein – Torsbjerg Mose

Prehistoric / primitive ?

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 53 http://io.ua/8521406p

Germany: South Schleswig, Holstein – Damdolf Mose

Prehistoric / primitive ?

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 55 http://io.ua/8521409p & 60 http://io.ua/8521415p

& 61 http://io.ua/8521417p

Germany: South Schleswig, Holstein – Wedelspang Mose

Prehistoric / primitive ?

Hide Shoe 1. Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 69 http://io.ua/8521427p
Hide Shoe 2. Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 69 http://io.ua/8521427p & 70 http://io.ua/8521428p
Hide Shoe 3. Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 71 http://io.ua/8521429p
Hide Shoe 4. Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 72 http://io.ua/8521430p
Hide Shoe 5. Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 77 http://io.ua/8521437p & 78 http://io.ua/8521438p
Hide Shoe 6. Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 79 http://io.ua/8521439p & 80 http://io.ua/8521440p
Soled Shoe 7. Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 83 http://io.ua/8521443p & 84 http://io.ua/8521444p
Shoe with side seam on upper - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 88 http://io.ua/8521448p
Diagram showing the different shoes - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 90 http://io.ua/8521450p & 91 http://io.ua/8521451p
Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 103 http://io.ua/8521469p

Germany: South Schleswig, Holstein – Lunden Mose

Prehistoric / primitive ?

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 70 http://io.ua/8521428p & 73 http://io.ua/8521433p

Germany: South Schleswig, Holstein – Lottorf Mose

Prehistoric / primitive ?

Hide Shoe 1 - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 75 http://io.ua/8521435p
Hide Shoe 2 - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 75 http://io.ua/8521435p
Hide shoe 3. - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 81 http://io.ua/8521441p
Shoe with Tapered sole - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 85 http://io.ua/8521445p
Very Low cut shoe with tapered sole - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 86 http://io.ua/8521446p
Two fragments - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 87 http://io.ua/8521447p
Diagram showing the different shoes - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages 90 http://io.ua/8521450p & 91 http://io.ua/8521451p

Germany: South Schleswig, Holstein – Hedeby

Prehistoric / primitive ?

Upper of Sole with central seam and side seam - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 89 http://io.ua/8521449p

Netherlands: Drenthe

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 383, 384, 385, 386,387, 388 ( write up)

Netherlands: Drenthe - Buinerveen

Prehistoric

Shoe

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 384 fig 5.

Netherlands: Drenthe - Bourtangerveen

Prehistoric

· Shoe 1

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 384 fig 6.

· Shoe 2

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 385 fig 7

Netherlands: Drenthe - Emmererfscheidenveen

Prehistoric

Shoe

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 385 fig 8

Netherlands: Drenthe - Emmererfscheidenveen

Prehistoric

Shoe

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 385 fig 9

Netherlands: Drenthe - Klazienaveen

Prehistoric

Shoe

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 386 fig 10

Netherlands: Drenthe - Smilde

Prehistoric

Shoe

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 386 fig 11

Netherlands: Drenthe - Weerdinge

Prehistoric

Shoe

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 386 fig 12

Netherlands: Drenthe - Munstersche

Prehistoric

Shoe

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 387 fig 13

Netherlands: Gelderland - Dorestad

Prehistoric

Shoe

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 387 fig 14

Netherlands: Friesland - Wijnaldum

Prehistoric

Shoe fragment

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 388 fig 15

Netherlands: Friesland - Wijnaldum

Prehistoric

Shoe fragment

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 388 fig 16

Netherlands: Emmen - Findspot: Emmer-Erfscheidenveen, municipality of Emmen

14th – 9th cent. BC

Emmer-Erfscheidenveen Man (1938) – Bog Body - deer skin shoes

http://www.crumbleholme.plus.com/Beakerfolk/cloth/beakerfolkcloth.htm

Northwestern Europe

Ca 1000 BC

Primitive shoe with back seam

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 94 fig. 6

Norway: Arctic : shoe found in Ice

4300 year old leather shoe

http://leatherworkingreverend.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/another-old-shoe/

http://qmackie.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/more-ice-patch-archaeology-bork-bork-bork/

Norway: Leksvik, Trondelag

Early Iron age

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 58 http://io.ua/8521413p & 59 http://io.ua/8521414p

Scotland: Iona

Prehistoric

Shoe cutting pattern layout

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 388 fig 17

Scotland:

Prehistoric

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 390 fig 21

Two primitive shoes from Scotland - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 153 http://io.ua/8521534p

Late Roman / Iron Age – 33 finds

England:

Roman ?

Roman Child’s open work shoe

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 62 http://io.ua/8521418p

England:

Roman ?

Roman hide shoe

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 62 http://io.ua/8521418p

England:

Roman ?

Roman - fragment of shoe

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 64 http://io.ua/8521420p

England: Whitehall Quarry, near Wellington, Somerset

early part of the Iron Age (700 BC to AD 43).

Shoe

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7802581/ns/technology_and_science-science/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/may/10/jamessturcke

England: London – 175 Borough high Street

Roman Shoe – sole

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumoflondon/4483335549/

England: London – 175 Borough high Street

Roman Shoe – sole

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumoflondon/4483335255/in/photostream/

England: Bath

????

Roman shoe soles in the Roman Museum in Bath, England.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=240353&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=442439797342&set=a.442367387342.240353.526022342&theater

England: Castleford, West Yorkshire

caligae

http://www.archaeology.wyjs.org.uk/RomanWeb/rw20.html

England : Newcastle

Roman

Leather shoe and leather working tools - Arbeia Roman Fort in Newcastle, England.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=244686&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=449477667342&set=a.449446737342.244686.526022342&theater

England : Newcastle

Roman

Childs Leather shoe with lattice work decoration in the Vindolanda site museum. Hadrian's Wall, England. Photograph of poster

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=243987&id=526022342#!/photo.php?fbid=448518002342&set=a.448511302342.243987.526022342&theater

England: York

Roman

Roman fortress shoe finds - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 150 http://io.ua/8521530p
Finds at Hungate York - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 151 http://io.ua/8521531p & 152 http://io.ua/8521533p

Caliga from the French National Archaeological Museum

France:

Original caliga at the French National Archaeological Museum

A 3,400-year-old leather shoe found in the mountains of south Norway after a record melt of ice

The Mainz Boot - Mainz, Germany

Germany: Mainz

? century

Roman Hobnail sole

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 51 – fig.21b

Roman Caligae

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 58 http://io.ua/8521413p

Irish Bog shoes

Ireland:

Prehistoric

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 391 fig 22

Drumacoon Bog Co. Cavan 200 – 500 AD - Hide shoe ( Lucas type 3 ) - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 154 http://io.ua/8521536p
Buggaun Bog Ballymoor 700 – 900 AD Hide Shoe ( Lucas type 3 ) - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 155 http://io.ua/8521537p
Ballyhagan Co. Kildare – Hide shoe ( Lucas type 4 ) - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 156 http://io.ua/8521540p
Ballymacomb Co. Derry – one piece shoe ( Lucas type 2 ) - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 157 http://io.ua/8521541p
From unknown place – one piece shoe ( Lucas type 1 ) - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 157 http://io.ua/8521541p
9 Various shoe designs ( Lucas type 1 ) - Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 158 http://io.ua/8521542p

Netherlands: Valkenburg

caligae

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 57 http://io.ua/8521412p

Weerdingerveen shoe

Netherlands: Weerdingerveen

Iron age

Shoe

Netherlands: Vechten

????

Fish net shoe

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 342 fig 9.

Netherlands: Schevenigseweg

????

Remains of sole nails

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 352 fig 23

1st century – 18 finds

Egypt :

1st to 4th century A.D.

Coptic leather fragment of shoe sole with text in ink.

http://www.bcgalleries.com.au/antiquities/viewItem/a7365

Egypt :

1st to 4th century A.D.

Coptic leather fragment of shoe sole with text in ink.

http://www.bcgalleries.com.au/antiquities/viewItem/a7364

Egypt :

1st to 4th century A.D. – Coptic

Cutting pattern of a Coptic shoe with hypothetical reconstruction of the rear part

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 93 fig 3

England: Copthall Court

1st – 2nd century

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 56 http://io.ua/8521410p

England:

Roman ? 1st – 2nd century

Roman shoe with openwork pattern

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 64 http://io.ua/8521420p

England:

Roman ? 1st – 2nd century

Roman shoe with openwork pattern

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 65 http://io.ua/8521421p

England: London, Threadneedle Street

43 AD - 410 AD

Roman leather shoe. Right foot leather shoe with six rows of nails at widest part of sole

http://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image.php?id=140620&idx=3&fromsearch=true

England: London, Angel Court: 30-35 Throgmorton Street, City of London, EC2

43 - 410

Two shoe soles, deteriorated, with holes. The upper one has the word 'EKTOPI' cut into the leather

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/OnlineResources/RWWC/objects/record.htm?type=object&id=303775

England: London – Cross Keys Court

1st - 2nd century

Roman Sandal - The upper part of a roman sandal

http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumoflondon/4543221888/in/photostream/

England : Northumberland - Vindolanda

1st Century

Carbatinae

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 353 fig 24.

England : Northumberland - Vindolanda

1st Century

Carbatinae

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 353 fig 24.

France : Bavay

1st Century

Carbatinae

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 353 fig 24.

Caliga from the French National Archaeological Museum

France – Roman Sandal

1st century

Germany: Original caliga photo, German Leather Museum

1st Century AD

Caliga, Roman soldier's sandals

http://www.ledermuseum.de/DLM/vollbild/seiten/03.htm

Germany: Wittmund - Findspot: Lengener Moor, Landkreis Wittmund

AD 80-135, 160-170 and 195-210.

Bentstreek Foot (1955) - leather shoe

Italy: Pompeii,

1st – 3rd CE

Shoe soles made of cord found in the ashes of Pompeii, Italy.

http://www.lessing-photo.com/dispimg.asp?i=10050447+&cr=29&cl=1

Netherlands: Vechten

1st Century

Carbatinae

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 353 fig 24.

Switzerland: Vindonissa

Roman 15 – 100 AD

Two fragments of Roman open work shoes

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 66 http://io.ua/8521423p

2nd century – 31 finds

England:

2nd – 3rd century

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes - pages: 56 http://io.ua/8521410p

England: Boscombe Down, Wiltshire

220 AD

The slippers had cork insoles and a fur lining and are the best preserved examples in Britain of this sort of luxury shoe which was imported from the Mediterranean. The child was buried wearing calf skin shoes which are unique in Britain

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2007/12/17/remarkably-preserved-roman-remains-grave

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/4601193648/in/set-72157621883271827/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/2184519743/in/set-72157603869387688/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/2184519741/in/set-72157603869387688/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/2184494999/in/set-72157603869387688/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/2184495007/in/set-72157603869387688/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/2184527809/in/set-72157603869387688/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/2118149706/in/set-72157603869387688/

Tollgate Farm Roman shoes

England: Staffordshire, Tollgate Farm Roman Site,

2nd century A.D

40 shoes found in a well

http://www.stokearchaeologysociety.org.uk/html/tgfm_shoes.htm

http://www.stokearchaeologysociety.org.uk/illustration/tgfm10/Tray%20of%20Shoes.jpg

http://www.stokearchaeologysociety.org.uk/illustration/tgfm09/Shoe%20loops%20DSCN4261.JPG

England : Northumberland - Vindolanda

1st - early 2nd century

Boot dated to late first - early second century

http://www.vindolanda.com/vind_museum_and_collection.html

http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/~ku/HadrianWall/066_29okt05_Vindolanda_schoenen.jpg

England : Northumberland - Vindolanda

early 2nd century

woman's sandal

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/exhibition/slipper.shtml

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/exhibition/army-7.shtml

http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/~ku/HadrianWall/066_29okt05_Vindolanda_schoenen.jpg

England : Northumberland - Vindolanda

early 2nd century

Some examples of more elaborate footwear from Vindolanda, with the leather of the uppers cut away to produce a type of 'fishnet' effect. Despite their flimsy appearance, such boots were hard wearing. They were worn by men and women.

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/exhibition/shoes.shtml

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/exhibition/army-7.shtml

http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/~ku/HadrianWall/066_29okt05_Vindolanda_schoenen.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smbtravels/5128517485/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smbtravels/5128517505/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smbtravels/5129122592/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smbtravels/5129122232/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smbtravels/5128516951/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smbtravels/5128516821/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smbtravels/5128516699/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smbtravels/5129121838/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smbtravels/5128516417/in/photostream/

England : Northumberland – Vindolanda & Chesterholm

early 2nd century

Fell boot L1123 from Vindolanda, early C2nd

http://www.comitatus.net/Documents/ComitatusIntheirShoesweb.pdf

http://www.star.uclan.ac.uk/~ku/HadrianWall/066_29okt05_Vindolanda_schoenen.jpg

England : Northumberland - Vindolanda

early 2nd century - Roman

A lady's shoe, with decorative pattern of nails

http://www.vindolanda.com/excavations2001.html

England : Northumberland – Vindolanda

early 2nd century - Roman

Sandal sole

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 340 fig 6.

France: Martres-de-Veyre

mid to late 2nd century - Roman

Wool stockings, leather shoes, and a sleeve from a 2nd century Roman burial

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

Germany: Welzheim, - V Style Welzheim

2nd century

A number of photos of shoes & boots found at Welzheim http://www.kelticos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=69&p=6312

Germany: Seemoor in Schleswig –Holstein - Findspot: Seemoor, Landkreis Rendsburg-Eckernfo¨rde

135 - 335 AD

Damendorf Man (1900) (inv. No. KS 10924) – bog body - fine pair of open work shoes - shoe - The primary material is leather - Description: shoe - Associated objects: a woollen cloak, a pair of woollen breeches, two woollen leg wrappings, two leather belts, a pair of leather shoes

http://heatherrosejones.com/shoesnettop/index.html

Germany: Marx-Etzel - Findspot: Hilgenmoor, Landkreis Wittmund

AD 140-395

Marx-Etzel (1817) - Bog Body - Shoe - The primary material is leather - Description: leather shoe

http://www.nihk.de/index.php?id=2254

Germany: Oberflacht

2nd - 5th centuries

Shoe

Germany: Thorsberg

2nd - 5th centuries

Shoe

Germany: Ardorf

2nd - 5th centuries

Shoe

Netherlands: Roomburg

Early 2nd Century

Carbatinae

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 354 fig 24.

Netherlands: Nijmegen

Mid - late 2nd Century

Carbatinae

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 354 fig 24.

Netherlands: Zwammerdam

Mid - late 2nd Century

Carbatinae

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 354 fig 24.

Netherlands: Valkenburg

Mid - late 2nd Century

Carbatinae

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 354 fig 24.

Netherlands: Oss / Ussen

Mid - late 2nd Century

Carbatinae

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 354 fig 24.