Rights Holder: Kent County Council
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Unique ID: KENT-D3E7B3
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete and worn probable Medieval leather shoe. The object is one piece of thick leather, approx. 4.32mm thick. There are separate flaps along each side, five remaining on one side and six on the other. Six of these are still complete with a pierced hole at the top presumably to connect it to another piece of leather or to attach a drawstring.The leather has been damaged and torn on one end.
It is possibly a Frankish Carbatine shoe which dates to AD 900, cf. http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOES/SHOE49.HTM. The shoe is not of welted construction, which was introduced around AD 1500.
Notes:
This object was found waterlogged on the foreshore and has since been dried out. It is therefore brittle and extremely fragile.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 900
Quantity: 1
Length: 267.93 mm
Width: 81.26 mm
Weight: 120 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 10th October 2013
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4 Figure: TR3559
Four figure Latitude: 51.28163707
Four figure longitude: 1.36840627
1:25K map: TR3559
1:10K map: TR35NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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