
1 - The leather shoe sole shown in earlier posts found close to deposits ive worked near Stainsby beck Thornaby on Tees Cleveland .

2 I have now cleared most of the holes that look to have been created by a bone tool .

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4 - Note the leather has been doubled up .

4 The leather was found close to the same Prehistoric deposit as the pottery below .

5 These pottery pieces excavated very close to the preserved shoe sole, Peter Row of Tees archaeology informed me he believes to be iron age.