A pair of jeans that lay at the bottom of the ocean for more than 100 years have been sold at auction for almost £100,000.
They were found in a trunk salvaged from the S.S Central America, a passenger steamer that sunk off the coast of South Carolina in the US in 1857.
Auction officials from Holabird Western Americana Collections, who auctioned the jeans, think they could be workwear trousers from jeans manufacturers Levi Strauss and that they belonged to a miner. But Levi Strauss's historian and archives director disputes this.
