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Mystery surrounds the appearance of hundreds of Victorian hobnailed shoes which have washed ashore on a beach.

The black leather boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, were discovered by volunteers cleaning up rock pools on Ogmore By Sea Beach in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.

Emma Lamport from the Beach Academy social enterprise which found the shoes said there was speculation locally that they could be from a shipwrecked Italian cargo vessel said to have struck nearby Tusker Rock about 150 years ago.

Author and mudlarker Lara Maiklem said the boots were "definitely Victorian" and likely to have come from a shipwreck due to the quantity found.

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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Except the shoes and boots are made up of leather, wood and nails so will naturally disintegrate.

Plastic Garfield phones won't do that for thousands of years.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, after a couple years in UV sunlight, the plastic will break down.

Into small pieces and microplastics, anyway, but they won't be Garfield phones any more.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

The BBC article posted here is dated 2019 and says that the phones started showing up in the 80's ... so 20-30 years and the sizes of the plastic are not small or micro.