Copper, copper alloy, statue

The larger than life-size left foot from a bronze statue wears a sandal. The surviving part of the sandal consists of two long perpendicular straps which cross at the big toe joint, the crossing embellished by a four-petal flower. The toes are undefined, leading to suggestions that the foot also wears a sock. It is hollow cast without a sole and is broken from the rest of the foot at the instep. A clean break, it may have originally been deliberately soldered to the rest of the statue at this point, rather than breaking off by chance, larger statues having been created in pieces and joined together. Some corrosion has left small hole over the little toe and there is some green patination all over the foot.

It may have been from the statue that stood on one of the sculpture bases found to the north part of the Tabard Square site, associated with the Romano-Celtic temples, and probably dates from the period of religious use of the site in the second century, though may have been deposited as late as the fourth or fifth centuries AD.