The Saalburg is an ancient Roman fortress in Germany and this link (https://mymodernmet.com/womens-shoes-ancient-rome/) takes you to an astonishing ancient artifact: a decorative leather woman’s sandal that is quite up to the minute.
The Saalburg is typical of the forts that ran across northern Europe and marked the outer limits of the Roman Empire.
Fascinatingly, in Belgium to this day the historic line of these forts mark the language divide between the Romance language speaking Walloons and Germanic speaking Flemish. This point is explored at the magnificent Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongern, Belgium.
