Found: A Fancy Baby Boot From the 14th Century

Author: Sabrina Imbler / Source: Atlas Obscura

Sometime in the 14th century in Saint-Ursanne, Switzerland, there lived a very fancy baby. No one knows the baby’s name, but we do know the infant was fancy because of their tiny, beautiful shoes: intricately decorated leather ankle boots with buttons and clasps.

Archaeologists uncovered fragments of this well preserved and frankly adorable artifact during an ongoing excavation of an old town in Switzerland’s Canton of Jura, according to a story in The Local Switzerland.

After spending the last seven centuries immersed in the groundwater of a large, wet depression left by the river Doubs, the baby boot surfaced under the cobblestones in the eastern part of Jura’s old town. Archaeologists quickly brought the boots to Marquita and Serge Volken, who work as shoe specialists at the Lausanne Shoe Museum, according to a statement from the Jura Office of Culture. The Volkens identified the boot as an especially rare find, joining the ranks of just five other known shoes of a similar design previously unearthed in Europe.

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