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"Unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes unearthed at a Roman site in northern England
- Archaeologists from the Vindolanda Trust uncovered eight large Roman shoes at Magna Fort near Hadrian’s Wall, including a record-breaking 32.6 cm sole, in Northumberland.
- Waterlogged, oxygen-free defensive ditches at Magna preserved fragile leather shoes for nearly 2,000 years, thanks to ideal anaerobic conditions.
- Researchers found 25% of Magna's 32 shoes exceed 30 cm, compared to just 0.4% at Vindolanda, with one measuring 32.6 cm, the largest in the collection.
- The Magna Project's oversized shoe finds expand Vindolanda’s collection and offer new insights into Roman frontier daily life within a five-year excavation effort.
- Researchers aim to analyze why Magna's oversized shoes are larger than typical Roman footwear and assess climate change risks to these fragile organic artifacts.
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A shoe with a leather sole of 32.6 centimeters, equivalent to a size 49, stands out among a total of eight of exceptional size recovered in the excavation of a Roman fort in England.
Archaeologists have been puzzled by the discovery of several pieces of enormous shoes, almost as long as a ruler, and estimated to have been made 2,000 years ago at a Roman site in northern England.
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