Michel Bardet of the French Atomic Energy Commission discussed the properties of the leather which kept the shoes preserved in an article for the American Chemical Society journal Analytical Chemistry.
13th century midden yields shoe soles
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2009-03-20 17:43
A batch of leather shoe soles dating from the 13th to 18th centuries was found in 2005 in a hollow tree trunk in an ancient trash dump in Lyon, France. The soles are well-preserved.
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