[MR] 2000 year old shoe found in UK

[WELENC,LUCINDA]

On Tue, 10 May 2005 15:23:54 -0400
  "Sharon Gordon" <gordonse at one.net> wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/4530905.stm
> 
> -- go there for pictures; here's the text:
> 
> Iron Age shoe unearthed at quarry

Trust the newsies to get it wrong -- look at the dates!
> 
> A shoe thought to be at least 2,000 years old, 
<snip>
> two mounds of burnt stone - dated to 1460 to 1290 BC - 

An artifact from that date is 3,000+, not 2,000.

Alanna