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Experts say they hope that pottery found in the same soil layers as the footwear could help them solve the mystery.
Eight XXL leather shoes have been recovered from Magna, a Roman-era fort along Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists excavating a ...
Archaeologists and students in the Netherlands have unearthed a 1,800-year-old temporary Roman military fort in the ...
Excavations of the northern defensive ditches of Magna Fort have revealed 32 shoes buried in the “semi-anaerobic low oxygen deposits,” according to a July 2 news release from the Vindolanda Charitable ...
A pair of ancient Roman boxing gloves thought to be the only surviving examples of their kind have been discovered near ...
From tiny children's shoes to colossal adult footwear, an unprecedented collection of Roman shoes has been unearthed at Magna ...
A stash of "unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists ...
Archaeologists have unearthed dozens of Roman-era footwear at an ancient fort site in northern England, including several ...
Archaeologists reported finding the first "exceptionally large shoe" on May 21 and have continued to discover more since then ...
The Roman Fort Magna, located in Northumberland, has been the site of several ancient footwear discoveries, but one shoe, due ...
The Roman Army Museum, located near the fort in Brampton, made the announcement. Photographs show volunteers holding the remarkably preserved leather shoes, which have maintained their form ...