Posted on 04/19/2013 5:45:09 PM PDT by NYer
Probably the most amazing are the wooden artifacts and intact leather shoes/boots.
The leather goods are believed to be the only surviving leather artifacts from the Roman era anywhere in the world. We’ve seen them as pictures on frescoes or on statuary, but to actually see the real thing is startling.
As an aside, I ran into a leather-good shop on St. Thomas years ago that measured your feet and made sandals based on images from Roman sources. They were pretty comfortable and I wore them until the wore completely out.
That’s a wonderful story about your shoes!
I’d love to see pictures of the intact leather shoes they uncovered. I wish a photo of them had been included in the article.
I think one of the links provided by Sunken Civ in the original thread had a lot more pictures and the boots were at that site.
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