And I'm still wondering why they are still wondering. So they are digging out oversized Caligae. You know that Caligae are? They are sandals. And they are digging them up at a fort at Hadrians Wall. Up in Scotland. Where things get cold occasionally.

Now imagine soldiers, standing guard or patrolling in the cold, wearing sandals. What would they do? They'd wrap up their feet in something warm, like lamb furs. Or cloth. But wadded up feet don't fit into standard-sized sandals designed for bare feet. Solution, rather obvious, is having oversized sandals that fit feet and insulation.

They had big feet?

Biggus Dickus' shoes.

Maybe it's a gag? Romans had memes and there are a lot of beings in Roman and Greek mythology that are essentially just oversized humanoids, so maybe the shoes are tied to some sort of mythological in-joke at the fort.

Gigantic? Massive? I was expecting hilariously big sizes, turned out to be my shoe size. Wtf. Is that insane that this particular fort had conscripts that were selected just because they were taller? Other cultures have preferred taller, bulkier soldiers, why this can't be the case?

Hey Nero look how big i made this shoe hahahahahaha

I mean ... maybe they had to keep some uniforms there for new recruits. and the biggest sandals rarely got used and got left behind when Rome abandoned the isles ?

And I'm still wondering why they are still wondering. So they are digging out oversized Caligae. You know that Caligae are? They are sandals. And they are digging them up at a fort at Hadrians Wall. Up in Scotland. Where things get cold occasionally.

Now imagine soldiers, standing guard or patrolling in the cold, wearing sandals. What would they do? They'd wrap up their feet in something warm, like lamb furs. Or cloth. But wadded up feet don't fit into standard-sized sandals designed for bare feet. Solution, rather obvious, is having oversized sandals that fit feet and insulation.

dons foil hat
It was for the giants. Cultures across the world have myths of giants. If any of those myths are based in reality, these big shoes could have been for the descendants of the giants that have interbred with us humans over the ages. By the time of Hadrian's wall these part giants would have been nothing more than large humans.

That shoe’s sole was 12.6 inches long, which is roughly the same size as a men’s 14 in the United States, reports Live Science’s Kristina Killgrove.

That is smaller than my shoe size, those scientists have a dumb frame of reference.

Not my fault everyone else has weird and tiny feet.

Since May, archaeologists working at Magna have unearthed eight massive leather shoes that each measure more than 11.8 inches long.

So four pairs? Was there one gigantic dude there that kept losing his shoes?

Spoiler alert: it was the main clown college in the Roman empire.

But seriously, that's interesting.

Big dick is the likely explanation.

They just wanted the shoes to last. Make they quality. Many layers.

Time-travellling clowns.