GH2021_R2_P10

10. GH2021 Artifact Class II: personal possessions

Pinned beneath the woven basket was an object that appears to be a generally complete fine leather shoe (find A84). Elsewhere the trench produced two other portions of shoes (find A16 and find A59). These finds represent three different styles of footwear. After conservation, comparison will be made with contemporary 15th century shoes in museum collections in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and in other institutions.

A well-preserved double-sided comb (find A32), presumably of boxwood, sat directly upon the flint ballast pebbles in the deepest excavation stratum. The find locus was the center of the southern half of the trench. From the same locus, a degraded silver coin (find A31) was recovered (see figure 12).
 

August 16, 2022

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