Two images of a 300-year-old shoe found at the University of Cambridge. (Cambridge Archaeological Unit)In Britain, ancient artifacts have a way of popping up where you least expect them. And earlier this month, when a maintenance crew went to rewire a room in St. John’s College at the University of Cambridge, they found a shoe in the wall, thought to be about 300 years old. Unlike the bones or tablets hiding under an undignified crust of modern infrastructure, the shoe had been secreted away in the wall by its contemporaries. The footwear hidden in the wall — about a men’s size 6 today, its sole worn through — had a purpose.

Source: Washington Post August 19, 2016 11:06 UTC