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2,000-year-old giant leather shoe 'immediately drew impressed gasps' after archaeologists pulled it from a ditch near a Roman fort in northern England

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Archaeologists have unearthed an enormous leather shoe at a Roman fort in northern England .

The shoe and other leather goods from the fort, called Magna , are providing new information about shoe manufacturing techniques and the people who wore them almost 2,000 years ago .

The sole measures 12.6 inches ( 32 centimeters ) long, the equivalent of a men's U.S. 14 or U.K. 13 size shoe today .

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