Context (Related Documents)
The second card reads: 'One much worn leather shoe, line of narrow slashes across arch, upper unstitched around sole. Elizabethan leather decoration around opening of shoe. Found with other articles under the floor of a room known as the shoemaker' s room in the old court of Corpus Christi College 1852'. Evidently there is some confusion as to provenance. While this item was originally catalogued as part of the Archaeology Department's holdings, it transpires that it is stored with the Anthropology Department's holdings. I have amended the entry accordingly. M.G.A. 2 February 1989.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Related Documents)
See diagram of artefact from front and side views on the card. The card has the following entry: 'This Elizabethan shoe was found with other articles (a-g) under a floor of the room known as the 'Shoe makers' room', in the old court of Corpus Christie College 1852'. Two cards bearing the identification number 1883.692 C have come to light. The contents of one card are transcribed above. That card also reads: 'Original CAS. 1883 List says Christ's Coll for 83.692 a-g. But appended [i.e. the second card ] is apparently original card referring to Corpus Old Court. See Babington, C. Antiquarian Communications I p. 51'.

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Found together / assemblage)
This Elizabethan shoe was found with other articles (a-g) under a floor of the room known as the 'Shoe makers' room', in the old court of Corpus Christie College 1852.

Event Date 1852
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Other owners)
Acquired by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society in 1852-1853. The 1853 Report reads: 'Shoes and Clogs of the time of Queen Elizabeth....found in a disused recess and under a floor at Corpus Christi College. See "Communications".'
Event Date 1853
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Babington, Charles. 1859. 'On some Antiquities found in Corpus Christi College in the year 1852' In 'Antiquarian Communications', Vol. 1, pp 50-54 and illustrated plate. University Press: Cambridge.
Event Date 1859
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1883.692 C reads: 'Line of narrow slashes across arch. Upper come away from side. Leather decoration around opening; Much Worn.'
Event Date 1883
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
After researching this and associated objects, suggest that 1883.692 A-F were found under the floor of the room known as the 'Shoe-maker's Room' in the Old Court of Corpus Christi College, and that 1883.692 (comb) and 1983.692 G (wood carvings) were found in a small cupboard in the Old Court with the leather objects in 1852. The Accession Register entry wrongly states the origin as Christ's College. Note with record clearly states find location as Corpus Christi College. All objects now reverted to Archaeology and index cards stored together in Arch. files.
Event Date 2/9/2002
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1883.692 C reads: 'Black shoe with open work decorations at the edge.'
Event Date 28/6/2005
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Conservation (Repack)
CON.2015.1251 | Repack
Event Date 28/4/2015
Author: cao37

Description (Physical description)
Description for 1883.692 C reads: 'Dark leather shoe, degraded/incomplete - should have enclosed toe but the area is missing; decorative cut around ankle area, leather sole, no heel, stitched not nailed.'
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa