The first shoe still contained its heel area after being
buried for around 2,000 years.

(FOX NEWS) – Volunteers were baffled recently when they
unearthed not one but two ancient shoes at a historic British
site.

The discoveries were made at Magna, an Ancient Roman fort
in Northumberland, in late May. The Roman Army Museum,
located near the fort in Brampton, made the announcement.

Photographs show volunteers holding the remarkably preserved
leather shoes, which have maintained their form despite being
buried for 2,000 years.

The second shoe surprised onlookers with its size, which is roughly equal to a U.S. men’s size 14.

The Buster Brown story began in 1878 when George Warren
Brown turned the city of St. Louis, Missouri into the center
of the shoe manufacturing world.

The Brown Shoe Co. really took off when a sales executive at
Brown, John A. Bush, acquired the name and character rights
to the Buster Brown comic strip character in 1904, and the
Buster Brown shoe company was born (the Brown last name
was purely a happy coincidence).

The shoes became instant hits, and the legend grew stronger
with each decade.

George Warren Brown (1852 – 1921)