10-11-2012, 01:11 PM
Thanks, Heres a pair of 2nd century shoes from Hardknot fort(mediobogdum) similar footware is found at Barhill and Housesteads. This example was for a museum dummy.... source: Leather found in Mediobogdum, Charlesworth D, Britannia 4 1973.
[attachment=5474]CalcaeHardKnot.jpg[/attachment]
Another 2nd century Antonine shoe from Barhill this one is unfinished and intended for a workshop display, very similar shoe from Saalburg...
source: The Leather from "Bar Hill A Roman Fort and its Finds" (BAR 16 1975)
[attachment=5475]SallburgBarhillsmall.jpg[/attachment]
All the above were Heavily nailed male footware with a pattern similar to this.
[attachment=5476]BarhillSaalburgCutHardknotnailing.jpg[/attachment]
For construction and material see first post.
[attachment=5474]CalcaeHardKnot.jpg[/attachment]
Another 2nd century Antonine shoe from Barhill this one is unfinished and intended for a workshop display, very similar shoe from Saalburg...
source: The Leather from "Bar Hill A Roman Fort and its Finds" (BAR 16 1975)
[attachment=5475]SallburgBarhillsmall.jpg[/attachment]
All the above were Heavily nailed male footware with a pattern similar to this.
[attachment=5476]BarhillSaalburgCutHardknotnailing.jpg[/attachment]
For construction and material see first post.
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
