50 medieval leather
shoes and a bag rare and exciting" leather and wooden objects 700 years
old have been found in Westgate Shopping
Centre excavations in Oxford. (Might
that be 25 pairs of shoes I wonder?) Experts have also uncovered a wooden bowl
and timber posts at the site.
Project Director Ben
Ford said: "These finds are as rare as gold and often as informative. They tell us about
the everyday people, their lives, the objects they made and the clothes they
wore. It's amazing to think these shoes were worn by people who walked the
streets of medieval Oxford. Only a
handful of sites will have that level of preservation. What makes it special is the sheer
volume of the material, we have only been on site four or five weeks and
already have 100 objects."
The site of the shopping
centre, which is being redeveloped, housed a friary for the Greyfriars
religious order and was just outside the Oxford city walls at the time.
An open day is taking
place this weekend for the public to visit the excavations as part of the
National Festival of Archaeology. Click here for details.
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