Bund shoe from Uetersen

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Reconstruction drawing from 1860 of the Uetersen Bundschuh by Magnus Petersen (1827–1917)
Replica of the Uetersen Bundschuh

The Uetersen Bundschuh is an archaeological find from the Egypt moor near Uetersen , Schleswig-Holstein . The Bundschuh was found in 1789 and was the first archaeological find in Schleswig-Holstein for which a salvage date is known.

Find history

The find was documented in a report from the Uetersen monastery and as a copy in a later court file. According to this, Claus Eggers found the shoe while cutting peat on his father's moor plot in the Egypt moor. It is possible that the location of the shoe in the Egypt moor referred to by Claus Eggers was not in the area of ​​the municipality of Uetersen, but in the area of ​​the neighboring municipality of Moorrege . The shoe was soled down with some whole hazelnuts in the peat about 6-7 feet deep . After it was recovered, the shoe was initially in private hands until it was transferred to the Museum of Patriotic Antiquities in Kiel in 1839 . Today it is kept in the Archaeological State Museum in Gottorf Castle in Schleswig , which belongs to the Schleswig-Holstein State Museums Foundation . A replica of the shoe is shown in the Uetersen City History Museum .

description

The Bundschuh is probably a right shoe, which is similar in shape and style to the Roman Carbatinae and made from a single piece of cowhide . The upper leather of the shoe was partially pierced by incisions and cut outward into about 36 tapered tabs. A strap or leather strap was pulled through these tabs, with which the shoe could be closed over the foot. The heel was formed by two incisions in the leather and a no longer preserved seam of the remaining flaps. The shoe is now about 25 cm long and about 8 cm wide. Despite the long storage in the moor, the early discovery with the then still inadequate preservation options , the Bundschuh is still in a very good state of preservation .

Dating

Based on comparisons with similar shoe models, the Uetersen Bundschuh can roughly be dated to the Roman Empire , i.e. between 0 and the 4th century AD . A more precise age determination such as a pollen analysis of the moor layer surrounding the shoe or radiocarbon dating ( 14 C dating) is no longer possible due to the contamination of the leather caused by the conservation.

literature

  • Claus Ahrens: Prehistory of the Pinneberg district and the island of Helgoland . tape 1 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1966, Sp. 15, 466 ff .
  • Margrethe Hald: Primitive Shoes. An Archaeological-Ethnological Study Based upon Shoe Finds from the Jutland Peninsula . National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen 1972, ISBN 87-480-7282-6 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claus Ahrens: Prehistory of the Pinneberg district and the island of Helgoland . tape 1 . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1966, Sp. 15 .