It's a real shoedunnit! Beachcombers are baffled as Victorian footwear washes up on shore

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It's a real shoedunnit! Beachcombers are baffled as Victorian footwear washes up on shore

Hundreds of leather, hand-made shoes from a 150-year-old shipwreck have mysteriously washed up on a beach in Wales.

The historical haul was discovered by volunteers cleaning up rock pools on Ogmore-By-Sea beach in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales last week on December 18.

Nearly 450 of the strange kicks have so far been found by members of the Beach Academy community interest group, who called it an 'amazing day of discovery'.

Incredibly, the shoes are believed to be from a shipwrecked Italian cargo vessel which struck nearby Tusker Rock about 150 years ago.

 

[songbrd]

Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach

More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.

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[airportwoman]

They're in excellent condition, that's for sure. Most likely, they were in a sealed container that finally decomposed, and they floated to the surface and washed up on the shore.