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Description: | An iron hoop from the bottom of a patten. The hoop is made from a band of iron standing on its side and bent into an oval loop. The band is 4.7mm thick and 12.5mm high making an oval which is 130mm long and 90.6mm wide. At each end of the oval is a projection vertically upwards which then bends outwards at a 90 degree angle. The wooden sole of the patten would have been attached to the top of these projections with nails. The iron part of the patten is 31.2mm high. The wooden sole, any part of the upper and the nails do not survive.
A patten was an over-shoe worn to give the wearer extra height to keep their shoes and the hem of their skirt out of the mud and detritus on the roads. They normally consisted of a wooden sole attached to an iron hoop which provided the height, with a leather toe and sometimes also a heel piece and leather straps with buckles to attach the patten to the shoe or foot. Leather pattens for indoor use to give the wearer extra protection against the cold are also known (Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition by Geoff Egan, 2005).
References to pattens are known from as early as 1390, but it is believed that early ones may have been made entirely of wood and that the type with an iron hoop did not come into widespread use until the post medieval period. Many iron hoops can be dated to the seventeenth century, and this is also likely to be the date of this example. Some signs can still be seen outside churches requesting the women in the congregation remove their pattens before entering. One example can be seen at Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire. The practise of wearing pattens continued in some areas until the Second World War, but they were gradually replaced by rubber boots and soles (Detector Finds 2 by Gordon Bailey, 2001). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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