A young student from Victoria Road School in Castletown has discovered what appears to be an extremely old leather sole for a child’s shoe from the beach near Hango Hill.
During a beach cleaning session last week organised by Beach Buddies the tiny piece of hardened leather, measuring just 11cm x 5cm, was discovered amongst stones close to the first car park near the Hango Hill bronze age memorial mound. The mound is also infamous as a place of execution, most notably of Manx martyr, Illiam Dhone.
“The first thing we noticed about it was the sole is really, really small and must have been for a baby or very small child. We have found lots of strange items on the beaches over our 20 years but this is definitely one of the most unusual. If anyone can offer any information we would be very interested to hear.
I think it’s probably worth having it examined by an expert – perhaps someone at the Manx Museum?”
