Description (Physical description)
Leather sole of a shoe, heel missing.
Event Date
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Accession register for Z 16313[.1-25]: 'Leather soles of shoes.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Field collection)
Likely collected by Thomas McKenny Hughes from the King's Ditch, exposed during digging the foundations for the extension of the Masonic Hall, Corn Exchange Street, close to the New Museums Site (as mentioned on the catalogue card) in early 1914.
Event Date 1914
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Hughes, T. M. (1915). 'Some Objects found in the King's Ditch under the Masonic Hall'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. 19. pp. 16-27.
Event Date 1915
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
McKenny Hughes (1915) notes that 'Of leather objects there is a large quantity, chiefly boots and shoes in which the threads have entirely perished, so that the pieces of leather have fallen apart and show the holes made by the stitches...' (p. 25). He goes on to date the shoes to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (p. 27).
Event Date 1915
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 16313[.1-25]: 'A number of fragments of leather, mainly shoe soles (one with the original nails) and uppers and straps with punched holes along the length.'
Event Date 19/9/2001
Author: Imogen Gunn

Conservation (Remedial)
CON.2016.3365 | Remedial
Event Date 22/3/2017
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Incomplete leather sole of a turnshoe, left foot. The shoe’s toe is rounded; slightly narrowed waist; heel missing. Stitching and seam holes visible along the edges.
Event Date 26/1/2024
Author: Jodi Zhang