Summary

Roman shoe or caliga of leather, from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 100 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 111 A

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Double sole of a sandal, imperfect, 9" long. [MoS description] Bloodshed, weapons and heroes. Roman military equipment. Legionary or auxiliary. Changing shoe fashions. (9) Boot, AD 80 - 100, Newstead. [Scran caption] This leather shoe, known in Latin as a caliga, was found at the site of the Roman fort at Newstead in Roxburghshire. It was worn between 80 and 100 AD. Although the openwork upper looks very flimsy and is badly damaged, this was the standard military shoe in the 1st century AD. A variety of shoes have been found in Roman Britain, included examples where the soles were nailed or stitched to the bottom layers, sandals and one-piece shoes. Surviving where conditions are favourable, they show changing fashions over time. Date: Between 80 and 100 AD. Material: Leather. Dimensions: Length: 22.9 cm. Reference - Curle, J. A Roman frontier post and its people: the fort of Newstead. Glasgow: MacLehose, 1911.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

Newstead Collection

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

1905

Method (e.g. excavation)

Excavated

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Newstead, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1914

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Unknown

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

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