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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

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    Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jul 10

    A Visigothic gold and garnet gold plaque of a facing bull's head with rock crystal eyes; 6th/7th century AD: http://archaicwonder.tumblr.com/post/126208827624/gothic-gold-bull-head-with-inlaid-garnet-6th-7th … #CowAppreciationDaypic.twitter.com/Q164QcXQ6b

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jul 10

        A rather sweet gold bull figurine from Bactria or Gandhara, 1stC BC; now in the Ashmolean Museum.pic.twitter.com/EPYIV8ptBt

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jul 12

        A bull on one of the Rudston Roman mosaics, East Yorkshire; possibly copied from a North African pattern-book? http://museumshull.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-rudston-venus-mosaic.html?view=classic&m=1 …pic.twitter.com/0W9Cm1sCen

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      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jul 12

        A lovely bull-headed bronze cosmetic-grinder, 1stC AD?, found Hockwold, Norfolk: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=812388&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/1rVQfdUNJz

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      2. T S P‏ @morangles Jul 10
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Childeric grave goods included also bulls heads of similar design Tournai grave found mid 1650s

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jul 10
        Replying to @morangles

        Indeed! :)

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      1. S. C. Flynn‏ @SCyFlynn Jul 12
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen @PrinceJvstin

        Love this style!

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      2. Nostradumbass‏ @Nostradumbass14 Jul 12
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen @HNTurtledove

        Was this symbolic for Mithras? Asking for the bull god....

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      3. Harry Turtledove‏ @HNTurtledove Jul 12
        Replying to @Nostradumbass14 @caitlinrgreen

        No. The Visigoths were Christian by then. They converted from Arianism to Catholicism just before the end of the 6th century.

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      4. Nostradumbass‏ @Nostradumbass14 Jul 12
        Replying to @HNTurtledove @caitlinrgreen

        Oh yes the arian controversy. Me forgets. Such a stupid thing to fight about. And I was raised catholic.

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