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A team of archaeologists has made an interesting discovery at Magna, a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland, ...
From tiny children's shoes to colossal adult footwear, an unprecedented collection of Roman shoes has been unearthed at Magna ...
Eight XXL leather shoes have been recovered from Magna, a Roman-era fort along Hadrian's Wall. Archaeologists excavating a ...
Archaeologists reported finding the first "exceptionally large shoe" on May 21 and have continued to discover more since then ...
In fact, so many shoes have been found across the two sites, the Vindolanda archaeological trust maintains a "shoe specialist ...
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 ...
Archaeologists have been left baffled after unearthing “unusually large” 2,000-year-old Roman shoes in Northumberland. Eight ...
A record-breaking Roman shoe, among 32 found at Magna Fort, offers new insights into the footwear and life along Hadrian’s Wall in Brampton, UK. ... forts and trade centers of Roman-era Britain.
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Excavations at the Roman fort Magna in northern England have already yielded three ancient leather shoes, one of which is staggering in size. The team digging through defensive ditches on their ...