500-year-old Dutch wooden shoe found in former medieval cesspit

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00:00I'm so excited. This is such a great find because wood is such an organic material and it is so

00:18vulnerable and so you know that we have this well-preserved wooden shoe. It's just fantastic.

00:24So you still can see the form, you can see how it was made and it was found in a chess pit

00:30in an urban surrounding. So this is this is very special because with wooden shoes you always think

00:37of farmers using wooden shoes during their work but actually this was found in an urban context

00:44so in a city of Alkmaar and they were using this kind of footwear for daily use. So this is very

00:52very nice and it's so very well preserved.