A pretty cool find. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...es-found-hadrians-wall?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Yes, but it isn’t unusual. Some years ago has been found in Italy a shipwreck that after tempest arrived on a beach and was covered by sand shortly after. In this shipwreck archeologist found ingots, leather shoes, legionary items like a leather cover of the shield, leather bags etc etc. In Italy the ship wreck has been name Fortuna Maris, her a link: https://www2.rgzm.de/Navis/Ships/Ship050/TheComacchioWreck.htm
Fantastic find ! Not as far back as 2000 years ago, but when the Vasa was re-discovered half a century ago in Stockholm harbor, they found with it shoes and other leather item very well preserved even though they were in the muddy water : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship) Q
Wow, I had no idea that leather could survive the elements for so long. My leather shoes and goods rot with mold within a couple of years here at latitude 18
Boggy conditions can preserve leather due to the anaerobic nature of the conditions. Think of all the well preserved dead folks found in bogs in northern europe, some with leather implements, ropes, shoes, etc.
True... I should have realized that. ! If anaerobic bogs are good at preserving dead folks, I see a marketing opportunity for a line of beauty products, the latest in the hideously expensive anti-aging marketplace. Deacon Ray can do the graphics and Curtisimo the ads. I'll concoct the lotions and potions .
Very neat! Here's a boxer on a denarius of L. Plaetorius Cestianus. You can see a boxing glove trailing ribbons worn on his left hand. The device of the boxing glove (cestus) is a pun on his cognomen, Cestianus. ROMAN REPUBLIC AR Denarius. Rare. 3.9g, 17mm. Rome mint, 67 BC. Crawford 396/1b (13 obv and rev dies); Sydenham 792a; Plaetoria 2. O: Diademed and draped bust of Juno Moneta right; MONETA downwards behind, [SC below chin]. R: Athlete (victorious boxer) running right, holding palm in right hand and wearing ribbons and cestus on left; L PLAETORI downwards behind, L F Q S C upwards before, torch below. Ex Andrew McCabe Collection
