How to look at feet

Two very different types of foot.

On the left is what Miss Jackson calls the Scots-Irish type, a long narrow foot, but with the toes almost in a straight line.

On the right is the Modern English type, chubbier than the Scots-Irish type, but with the toes sloping down sharply.

Other types of foot (not shown) include the Italian foot, with a very small little toe. This is often seen on Roman statues, suggesting that it is a type that has persisted for two millenia.

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The most significant of the feet bones is the cuboid bone, the bone on the outside of the foot between the heel bone and the little toe.

In the pre-Saxon foot, the bone is indeed cuboid.
In the Saxon foot it is more quadrilateral

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