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'Outstanding' 2,200-year-old child's shoe discovered deep underground in Austrian mine (www.livescience.com)
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Deep underground in a rock-salt mine in Austria, archaeologists have made an "outstanding" discovery: the 2,200-year-old shoe of a child.

The mine's rock salt, which people have been mining since the Iron Age (800 B.C. to 1 B.C.) in the village of Dürrnberg near present-day Salzburg, preserved the well-crafted shoe, according to a translated statement from the German Mining Museum (DBM) in Bochum. The lone footwear is about a U.S. children's size 12 (European children's size 30).

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deep in an underground mine? Instanding discovery, hopefully we'll gain some understanding from it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The salt mines in the area have helped provide a fascinating insight into the early Iron Age. It is possible that the salt helped make them rich (and could have helped fund the start of the Iron Age)band it's a great place to preserve even delicate finds - they've even been able test their poo. There's a huge necropolis at Hallstatt, the type locality for the culture of the same name.