Ancient Scottish shoes go on show at Waalwijk
31/01/2014
Fieldwork on a new supermarket for retail group Tesco in the town of Camelon, near Falkirk, uncovered a large collection of women’s, men’s and children’s shoes dating from the period the Romans spent in the area (from 138 AD to 161). Camelon is close to the Antonine Wall, which stretched across central Scotland, and was built on the site of two Roman forts. An archaeology group working at the site before the supermarket project began found the shoes.
The Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum said on announcing its exhibition of the shoes that the collection is “out of the ordinary” because of the large volume of shoes it contains and the great variety it contains.
There are second-century boots and even a kind of flip-flop among the items, with what the museum calls “various degrees of decoration”.
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