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Bathing sandals - QRusticus - 05-01-2014 Hi everyone, I'm convinced I've seen pictures of bathing sandals somewhere, if not the finds themselves it I can't think where! Anyone have any pictures or links? Anyone know where originals might be on show? Regards Bathing sandals - Medicus matt - 05-01-2014 Plenty of bath-house entrance mosaics show sandals, oil flask and strigil. Like this one from Libya :- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Public_bath_sign_-_Sabratha_(cropped).jpg Bathing sandals - Densus - 05-02-2014 There were some wooden soled sandals found at Vindolanda that they think were for use in the baths. Is that the find you are thinking of? Bathing sandals - QRusticus - 05-06-2014 Vindolanda makes sense, I was lucky enough to dig there a couple of years ago. Am going back this year, will have to keep a look out! Bathing sandals - Martin Moser - 05-06-2014 Wooden sandals of "Roman" provenance have been found in many places across Europe and in many shapes. Even though they are mostly attributed to baths, I think at least some of them were also used outside. I'll post a few sources and pics later this week. Bathing sandals - Cunicula - 05-06-2014 There's a chapter on them in Paola Pugsley's BAR (International series) S1118, 2003 Roman Domestic Wood Analysis of the morphology, manufacture and use of selected categories of domestic wooden artefacts with particular reference to the material from Roman Britain ISBN 1 84171 327 9. Bathing sandals - Martin Moser - 05-09-2014 Here are a few pics from originals: from Heckenbenner, Dominique, Claudine Jacquet. Galoches de bois et bottines de cuir, se chausser de l'Antiquité à l'aube de la Renaissance: Musée du Pays de Sarrebourg. 2004 Leguilloux, Martine. Le cuir et la pelleterie à l'epoque romaine, Editions Errance, Paris, 2004 also gives a nice little overview. Bathing sandals - QRusticus - 05-09-2014 Thank you Martin! I can rough cut some soles this weekend!