Well Preserved England Found Two Thousand Years Ago Men'S Shoes

Archaeologists are England A city near the southwestern city of Wellington was discovered before 2000. shoes Son, this one. shoes The son is hidden in a hollow trunk used to build ancient wells. Experts speculate that it may remain here as a symbol or may be left unintentionally in the mud.

　　
This one shoes It was discovered in a quarry by the Exeter Institute of archaeology. Siddifen Reid, leader of the group, said: "this is the oldest shoe found in Britain so far. Obviously, it is well preserved. Leatherwear The stitches and lace eyes can be seen.

　　
The white marble quarry of this shoe found a Bronze Age site in 1989.

　　
Researchers from the Exeter Institute of Archaeology discovered two flume nearby and two wells made of wood, which were preserved by water immersion. The time can be traced back to the early Bronze Age (700 BC to 43 AD).

　　
One of the wells was a hollow hollowed into the ground and surrounded by springs.

　　
Archaeology removed the substance from the trunk in order to clean it up in the laboratory. Reed said, "when the Wiltshire conservation center began to carry out this work, this truly extraordinary discovery came into people's eyes."

　　
This shoe is about 12 inches long and can be judged to be a man's shoes, archaeologists say.

　　
It may have been left behind by some symbolic meaning when it was closed here, or it might simply have fallen into the mud of the spring.

　　
"The importance of this shoe is that there is no such thing in archaeological records, because they are usually rotten away." Reed said.

　　
He also said it was the first such shoe found in Britain, and even in Europe, there are only about ten such shoes.