Shoe From Iron Age Found in Britain
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Archeologists said Tuesday that they had dug up Britain’s oldest shoe, dating from the early Iron Age about 2,000 years ago.
The leather shoe is the modern equivalent of a size 10 1/2 , which suggests its owner was a man. It was discovered in a hollowed-out tree trunk in a quarry in southwest England.
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