01-30-2015, 06:47 PM
Hi Brian I found the sources for that and there were other shoes that survived and collected, I believe that these remains found their way to a museum in Newcastle but couldn't find a record after that....
On the Whitley Castle Website you can see some illustrations and their brochure has similar illustrations of I believe the shoes in questions...
Antony Hedley wrote an article on some shoes found in Whitley in connects with some others found at Carlisle, in it he mentions examining the shoes from Whitley including the bright blue of the prussic acid on the hobnails, brought to him by a Mr Henderson "who undertook some excavations on the site".....
see: Archaeologia Aeliana Vol 2 pg 205
and
A History of Northumberland Hodgeson 1840 pg76
On the Whitley Castle Website you can see some illustrations and their brochure has similar illustrations of I believe the shoes in questions...
Antony Hedley wrote an article on some shoes found in Whitley in connects with some others found at Carlisle, in it he mentions examining the shoes from Whitley including the bright blue of the prussic acid on the hobnails, brought to him by a Mr Henderson "who undertook some excavations on the site".....
see: Archaeologia Aeliana Vol 2 pg 205
and
A History of Northumberland Hodgeson 1840 pg76
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
