Database of Roman shoe finds

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I was looking for a collection of reference material regarding late roman shoes. 4th, 5th and 6th century thereabouts. In my online search I found this. While not neccesarily what I was looking for, It might be a nice little catalogue that can be of use to the Roman reenactment community on here. Basicly it's a list of archeological shoe finds ordered by date, location and corresponding culture. There is a good chunk of Roman stuff in there as well. The added value is that allot of them also have pictures for those of us who want to try at making them ourselves. And if there's no picture available, there is an literary footnote on it's source.

One Example: 

"The Mainz Boot - Mainz, Germany
Germany: Mainz
century

• Roman Hobnail sole
  

Stepping Through Time By Olaf Goubitz – Page No: 51 – fig.21b

• Roman Caligae
  

Margrethe Hald's Primitive Shoes -  pages: 58 http://io.ua/8521413p"


The link is: https://sites.google.com/site/archoevide...oes-part-1


I hope it can be of use for some of you all.


With kind regards,


Canonfodder90

Unfortunatly I know of no single online resource that accurately lists and dates roman shoes, however there is a recent publication at a very reasonable price that studies shoes generally from Prehistory to 1600ad, it also contains an excellent bibliography of publications, many of which can be found online.

"Archaeological Footware" M.Volken. and is widely available from all good archaeological book sellers, the one given here is just an example but you can also try Sidestone Press and Oxbow Books or others.

However this covers only Shoes mainly from northern europe and substantially made from animal skin, not sandals, pattens, mules, clogs/wooden shoes or vegetable fibre footware, though curiously it does include a roman "overshoe"....