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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.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 4

      The 'Empress' pepper pot from the 5th-century Romano-British Hoxne Hoard, found in Suffolk; used for dispensing pepper or another spice at the dining table: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1362638&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/ScxU7Uj267

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    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 4

      Worth noting that pepper from India continued to be available in NW Europe in the 7th/8th centuries e.g. Chlothar III granted an annual rent of 30 pounds of pepper to Corbie monastery (N. France) in the mid-7thC, and Bede's personal possessions incl pepper when he died in 735 AD.pic.twitter.com/dn7Y03nbH8

      Text of Cuthbert’s letter on the death of Bede, which mentions pepper amongst his personal possessions, from http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/05/the-real-venerable-bede.html
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    3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 5

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      Interestingly, the same document concerning the monastery of Corbie in northern France (reconfirmed by Chilperic II in 716) also mentions an annual quantity of 2 pounds of cloves, which were only grown in Indonesia—see https://twitter.com/siwaratrikalpa/status/1007600535443263488 … :)

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    4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 7

      One interesting feature of the distribution of Indo-Pacific beads is the sheer number found at both extremities of Eurasia — they occur in their thousands and on a significant number of sites in both Late Yayoi/Kofun Japan and Late Antique western Europe...pic.twitter.com/yC8egiHNXj

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    5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 7

      (Incidentally, the above maps are from http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935413.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935413-e-46 … & https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352226716300095 …; note, the finds of Indo-Pacific beads from Kofun Japan are even more numerous than those from the Yayoi period).

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    6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 11

      Some Indo-Pacific beads found in Japan; for more on such finds, see 'The Far East, Southeast and South Asia: Indo-Pacific Beads from Yayoi Tombs as Indicators of Early Maritime Exchange', by Oga Katsuhiko & Sunil Gupta — https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02666030.2000.9628581?needAccess=true …pic.twitter.com/FvFHQkDR8m

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    7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 19

      Of course, not just Indo-Pacific beads found in Kofun Japan; here's a Roman glass bead found in the early 5th-century AD Utsukushi no.1 burial mound in Nagaoka-kyo, Japan: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/17691 pic.twitter.com/os8IhYwyAO

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    8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 21

      Returning to the far west of Eurasia, here's an excellent paper on Red Sea/Indian Ocean trade with western Europe and England in the 5th–7thC focusing on elephant ivory rings: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uvN7DgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA131#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/LP3HlDXnS1

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    9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 21

      Well over 100 elephant ivory rings—cut from the base of a tusk of an African savannah elephant—are known from 5th- to 7th-century England alone, with many more known from continental cemeteries; the latter are thought to reflect 'a heavy inflow of the material' in the 5th–7thC.pic.twitter.com/9UnWvooSv2

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    10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 22

      The distribution of Red Sea/Indian Ocean cowrie shells in 6th- to 7th-century NW Europe; like ivory rings, they are found in substantial quantities and over a large geographical range: https://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/GCMS/RMS-2006-07_J._Drauschke,_%27Byzantine%27_and_%27oriental%27_imports_in_the_Merovingian_Empire.pdf …pic.twitter.com/VLK6nU3Gy8

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      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 22

      Fwiw, Drauschke notes for NW Europe as a whole that Red Sea/Indian Ocean goods are not only found in large+increasing quantities in the 6th- to 7th-centuries, but are also not 'components only of high-status graves', esp. c.570–680, a point Hills likewise makes for ivory rings…

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 23

          Importantly, similar points can be made re: the Indo-Pacific beads found in their thousands in early medieval Europe, which occur in graves presenting 'varying “degrees of richness”. The beads thus do not appear to be the prerogative of a privileged few': https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352226716300095 …pic.twitter.com/wL0jTLxVqd

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 24

          Two more imported elephant ivory rings found in Anglo-Saxon graves, from Sleaford (Lincolnshire) and Dover (Kent): http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=96898&partId=1 … & http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=755613001&objectId=1341153&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/h5HL1R3PZB

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        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Aug 25

          A 6th-century Frankish bird brooch decorated with Indian garnets and a pearl: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464859 …pic.twitter.com/giSAtwMKA7

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        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Sep 7

          A cowrie shell from the Red Sea or Indian Ocean found in an Anglo-Saxon grave in Lincolnshire: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/07/indo-pacific-beads-europe.html …pic.twitter.com/uuH1VV03d3

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        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Sep 8

          A 7th-centuy Frankish brooch set with garnets and a sapphire that probably originated in Sri Lanka: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/465373 …pic.twitter.com/qkF500OBCQ

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        7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Sep 8

          Votive crown of King Recceswinth, 7thC AD, made of gold, rock crystal, pearls and sapphires: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orfebrería_visigoda_en_el_MAN_(14234939376)_(2).jpg …pic.twitter.com/wfVa66oAmw

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        8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Sep 9

          A late 5th-/early 6th-century paten made from gold, turquoise and Indian/Sri Lankan garnets; found with early 6th-century Byzantine coins and a chalice near Gourdon, France: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trésor_de_Gourdon_02.JPG …pic.twitter.com/UuO541gbks

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