Stockings

This pair of woollen knitted stockings, or long socks, was discovered on a man's body found at Gunnister in Northmavine in Shetland, in the late 17th century.

The stockings have been knitted in stocking stitch and include 'clocks' - woven or embroidered ornaments on the side of socks or stockings, rising up from the ankle.

When he died, the man was wearing a coat, jacket, shirt, breeches, cap and stockings. Some of his possessions were a wooden pail, a horn spoon and a knife handle which could possibly have been used for preparing and eating food.

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