Some Indo-Pacific beads found in 5th- to 6th-century AD Merovingian graves in France: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352226716300095 …pic.twitter.com/kjEDiH4Lrm
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Some Indo-Pacific beads found in 5th- to 6th-century AD Merovingian graves in France: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352226716300095 …pic.twitter.com/kjEDiH4Lrm
Indo-Pacific beads discovered in the Roman/Early Byzantine cemetery at Qau, Egypt, similar to those discovered in fifth- to sixth-century Europe: https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/egypt-artefacts/2018/05/30/looking-at-beads/ …pic.twitter.com/RcWK3rQfTX
Two necklaces of Indo-Pacific beads found in 5th-century Silla tombs in South Korea: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mpanKmU_ckYC&lpg=PA115&pg=PA117#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/6QmWNpDfwY
Indo-Pacific beads found on Zanzibar island, Tanzania, and thought to date from around the 6th–7th centuries AD: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-015-0310-z …pic.twitter.com/FV95BVQHSX
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For interest, here's the global distribution of 5th- to 7th-century Byzantine material:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/844281770241675265 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
The post also discusses L4th-7thC 'Jatim' beads made in Jawa Timur/East Java, Indonesia; one was recovered in 1999 from the Early Byzantine Red Sea port of Berenike, Egypt (image=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Eyemu-_MncwC&lpg=PA138-IA8&pg=PA138-IA8#v=onepage&q&f=false …).pic.twitter.com/3p0tYFens7
A 5th- to 7th-century 'Jatim' bead made in Jawa Timur/East Java, Indonesia, from a mixture of Byzantine & Sasanian glass: https://www.academia.edu/22146727/A_study_of_mid-first_millennium_CE_Southeast_Asian_specialized_glass_beadmaking_traditions_Lankton_et_al_2008_ISEA_ …pic.twitter.com/d958vQ1AcI
An early 'Jatim' bead of c. AD 400, made in Jawa Timur/East Java out of Sasanian Persian glass & found in a Silla tomb in South Korea: https://www.academia.edu/22146727/A_study_of_mid-first_millennium_CE_Southeast_Asian_specialized_glass_beadmaking_traditions_Lankton_et_al_2008_ISEA_ …pic.twitter.com/54zUQXFOe3
By way of context for the presence of Indo-Pacific beads in 5th- to 7th-century Europe, here's the distribution of other possible Red Sea/Indian Ocean imports in 5th–7thC England (garnet=diamonds, cowries=dots, ivory rings=squares, and amethyst=stars): http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/07/indo-pacific-beads-europe.html …pic.twitter.com/LqebiULUEt
They loved that stuff in Thanet it would seem. Is this something to do with the port town of Sandwich?
It's found all across East Kent in particular; proximity to continent etc plus Thanet and East Kent seems to have had strong Mediterranean contacts back into the Bronze Age...
Someone should have told @Nigel_Farage that when he ran for Thanet. 
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