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Description: | Post Medieval iron shoe patten probably dating from the 17th century to the 18th century. The patten has a broadly rectangular frame with attachments at the front and rear. The sides of the frame are wavy or 'crinkled' (indented in and out several times).At the heel the frame has a straight bar from the centre of which a tab projects up vertically before being bent outwards at 90 degrees into a heart shaped plate (widening towards the back with a central indent in the back edge creating two lobes). In the centre of the plate is a separate circular sectioned rivet, flattened at the bottom to hold it to the plate and the top where it would have been riveted through a wooden platform (now missing).At the toe the frame projects upwards 90 degrees with the entire end bar being raised to the same level as the heel plate.Goodall, I (1973:63) comments that the single and double riveted raised terminals were characteristic of pattens. The "rivets passed through a wooden patten or sole. Shoes were secured by straps to these pattens, which raised the wearers' feet above dirt and mud. Pattens with iron rings were used during and after the 17th century, the earliest known reference is 1625, and the type with the crinkled edge is thought to be superseded by the plain oval hoop by c.1720." (ibid).
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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