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A Bog Body and its Shoes from Amcotts, Lincolnshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

R. C. Turner  and
M. Rhodes
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An Investigation into the original documentary records of a bog body found near Amcotts, Lincolnshire, led to the rediscovery of a shoe which had been taken from the body in 1747. Not only is this one of the few surviving artefacts to have been found with a British bog body, but it is apparently also the first shoe, recovered by excavation, to have been subsequently preserved in an antiquarian collection. Moreover, recent advances in footwear studies have enabled this shoe and hence the body to be dated. Its late Roman origin is highly relevant to the ongoing controversy concerning the date and cause of death of the bodies from Lindow Moss and elsewhere in Britain.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 72 , March 1992 , pp. 76 - 90
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1992

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