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Footwear has always been necessary, and it will always be, not only for excursions here, but also, to the netherworld. The ancient Romans usually left some things at graves; one was a coin or pair of coins so that the deceased would be able to pay Charon for the crossing of the last river of the souls.A

nother thing that they left for their dead friends and relatives was a pair of boots with hobnails; they always left them, and it is not quite clear why, but it seems that such footwear was thought to be required also for making the journey.

At Cirencester, in the British Isles, a foundry was found near a cemetery where about 2.000 of these nails were still in store. It seems that by the fourth century A.C., lucrative industries had been rising around the last rites for the deceased, much like today.It seems, according to archaeologists, that specially-designed boots were actually being made for graves.

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