14. A Person Buried with Leather Boots
In 2018, workers were excavating in the Thames River, which has long been the lifeblood of London. They uncovered the skeleton of a man who seemed to have drowned while working in the sewers. The boots would likely not have been intentionally buried with someone because they would have been quite expensive and passed on to others. The skeleton dates back to about the fifteenth century, and the leather boots indicate that he may have worked in a notoriously dangerous profession that kept him close to the water.
