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Kristina Killgrove

One Roman soldier had enormous feet, 2,000-year-old waterlogged leather shoe reveals

A person holds out a muddy leather shoe sole with an archaeological dig in the background.

Archaeologists have unearthed an enormous leather shoe while digging at the bottom of an "ankle-breaker" defensive ditch at a Roman fort in northern England.

The shoe and other leather goods from the fort, called Magna, are providing new information about shoe manufacturing techniques and the people who wore them almost 2,000 years ago.

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