Sticking with the subject of historic footwear - and some of it again on the large side - an excavation of the area of a medieval harbour in Oslo has revealed on the waterlogged site a very impressive collection of some 200 medieval shoes of varying sizes.. There are also knife scabbards and a number of belt purses and maybe handbags. Writing that makes me wonder if one can envisage a medieval Lady Bracknell and Miss Prism …..
Getting back to hard, or in this case soggy, archaeological facts the discovery is reported upon by Live Science at Thousands of leather shoes, bags and sword scabbards discovered during dig in medieval harbor in Norway
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