Archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old leather sandal, an example of Ice-Age fashion, on a mountain pass in Norway:
It was a shoe drop very different from those that fuelThanks to melting ice, archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old leather sandal left behind by a traveler passing through Horse Ice Patch in what, today, is Oppland, Norway. Experts believe the shoe, which has been radiocarbon-dated to about 300 C.E., was discarded by its owner after being worn out.
A hiker spotted the Iron Age sandal sticking out of the snow in August of 2019. He promptly contacted, a group of archaeologists who study glaciers and ice patches in Norway—and did so just in time, as a winter storm was about to set in, threatening to cover the object indefinitely. “It could take many years before it melted out again,” Espen Finstad, the lead archaeologist on the project, toldElements be damned, Finstad and his team excavated the sandal, as well as other artifacts in the area, including textiles, arrow shafts, and frozen horse manure from the Viking Age . “It was a long day,” Finstad recalled. The next day the area was blanketed in snow.
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