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104 Shoe with side-latchet fastening (late 14th-century). The holes are taken by the quarters and reinforced with a cord. The latchet was originally held in place with an edge/flesh butt-seam. On the inner side are rows of stitch-holes and, along the upper edge, the remains of a binding-seam which mark the former presence of two rectangular patches; these were probably added successively and, because they clearly pass over the reinforcement cord, may not have been an original part of the shoe. They may have been stitched in to strengthen the side seam -perhaps after the shoe had split apart. Scalę 1:3.