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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 5mm thick and 11.6mm high making an oval which is 145.9mm long and 100.1mm wide. At each end of the oval is a projection vertically upwards which then bends outwards at a 90 degree angle. One projection is broken, but the other has a trilobed terminal. 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 29.5mm 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 mud. 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.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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