Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note found with objects reads: 'Leather etc. Peas Hill T. McK. H. 1915 CAMBRIDGE. 83E Z 16315'
[Note: the '1915' refers to the publication date, rather than discovery date. Imogen Gunn 19/10/2023]
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 16315 [A-E]: Shoe soles and fragments of shoes.

Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Found at King's Ditch, Peas Hill in 1914 by Professor Thomas McKenny Hughes.
Event Date 1914
Author: maa

Context (References)
Hughes, Thomas McKenny. (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 (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 16315 [A-E]: 'Shoe soles and shoe uppers, ?sandal of wooden base and leather straps attached with iron nails.'
Event Date 25/9/2001
Author: Jodi Zhang

Description (Physical description)
Part of leather turnshoe, possibly the whole-cut shoe upper or vamp. Roughly triangular in shape, with a pointed toe and a slit from the opposite edge towards the centre. Seam holes along all three edges.
Event Date 19/10/2023
Author: Jodi Zhang