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Shoes and Pattens

28 Early/mid 13th-century ankle-shoe. Scalę 1:3 approx.

held the shoe very tightly on the foot. The second complete ankle-shoe is radicaUy different in con-struction, sińce the vamp and ąuarters are separate units joined by identical seams in the same position on both sides of the foot (Fig. 28). There was a topband, a heel-stiffener and a reinforcement-piece over the lace-holes, which are large and triangular. The holes are uneven in number (three on one side, four on the other) and seem to have been at least partly decorative, for impressions show that they have been pulled out of shape by a smali round lace rather than a broad thong - probably a single lace threaded upwards in the manner illustrated in Fig. 27.

The few remaining shoes in this group are all of types discussed elsewhere and merit only brief individual attention. One is a smali ankle-shoe, originally fastened with a buckie, but in generał

Table 3.	Shoes (all sizes) from Swan Lane, late 13th century.
	Type 1	Toggle Type 2 Type 3		Uncertain type	Drawstring	Not known	Total
Shoe	6	_	_	_	_	1	7
Ankle-shoe	5	4	—	—	_	2	11
Boot	—	—	3	1	_	_	4
Not known	5	2	—	7	—	4	18
Total	16	6	3	8	—	7	40

Table 4. Shoes (all sizes) from Ludgate, early 14th century.

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	Type 1	Type 2	Type 3	Uncertain type	Drawstring	Not known	Total
Shoe	1	2	_	_	_	_	3
Ankle-shoe	—	2	—	1	3	—	6
Boot	—	—	1	—	1	—	2
Not known	1	1	-	6	3	4	15
Total	2	5	1	7	7	4	26