SHOES IN ROMAN TIMES.
Shoes, since the Romans came with obnails in them to these shores, have '.ways been a matter of interest to the '•itish people. The Romans had shoes >r vari us occupations. The well-to-o wore sandals, which they left off at leals, but the field labourer and the oldier wore loose leathern shoes with obnails in the soles. The legionaries iav(> left their imprint on some Roman •<>iids.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 177, 29 July 1939, Page 10
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71SHOES IN ROMAN TIMES. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 177, 29 July 1939, Page 10
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