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Shoes from London sites, 1100-1450

49, 50, 51 Late 14th-century shoes. Scalę 1:3 approx.

single front-latchet shoe (Fig. 47) - which appears to have been repaired at the ąuarters after it had been worn by a child who was ‘pigeon-toed’ and whose foot pushed it abnormally outwards (see further, below, pp. 107-8) - and a single shoe fastened with a buckie (Fig. 44). The buckie, now mostly lost, is of lead alloy rather than iron, but in styling and construction the shoe is an exact miniaturę of the adult versions. The front-laced shoes also have much in common with the front-laced shoes discussed above (cf. Figs. 52-4), although nonę of the surviving examples seem to have had tongues. One of those illustrated (Fig. 53) is unique in the present collection in that it is of one-piece construction. The lace, which is knotted at each end, passes from above through the holes on the side where it is fastened, not from below as

52 Mid 14th-century shoe. Scalę 1:3 approx.