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"LONDON (AFP) - Ancient Romans in Britain apparently wore socks with their sandals, a modern-day fashion faux-pas, archeologists at work on a 2,000-year-old site in south London have revealed.
"A foot belonging to a bronze statue, unearthed on the 1.2 hectare (three acre) site of a Roman temple complex, appears to be wearing a kind of woollen stocking under a Mediterreanean-type sandal ..."
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I found it at the inestimable Discordian Research Technology News
"LONDON (AFP) - Ancient Romans in Britain apparently wore socks with their sandals, a modern-day fashion faux-pas, archeologists at work on a 2,000-year-old site in south London have revealed.
"A foot belonging to a bronze statue, unearthed on the 1.2 hectare (three acre) site of a Roman temple complex, appears to be wearing a kind of woollen stocking under a Mediterreanean-type sandal ..."
Source
I found it at the inestimable Discordian Research Technology News
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