Skull of a Barbary lion, Panthera leo leo, dated to 1280–1385 and found in the Tower of London's moat in 1937: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/barbary-lion-skull-from-the-tower-of-london.html …pic.twitter.com/zCiEgjkqMM
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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Skull of a Barbary lion, Panthera leo leo, dated to 1280–1385 and found in the Tower of London's moat in 1937: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/barbary-lion-skull-from-the-tower-of-london.html …pic.twitter.com/zCiEgjkqMM
The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II not only sent a camel to King Henry III of England in the 1230s, but also 3 'leopards', sometimes thought have actually been cheetahs (Image: a drawing of a cheetah wearing a collar, c.1400–1410: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=717251&partId=1 …).pic.twitter.com/9Cdqjimcdc
There is also good textual and archaeological evidence for the presence of Barbary macaques from North Africa in Britain & Ireland, including bones from medieval Southampton, London & Carrickfergus, see http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/02/barbary-ape-wroxeter.html … :)pic.twitter.com/NH7QAbuBMV
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
Returning to camels, worth noting that they seem to have been used as beasts of burden and tools of humiliation in early medieval Europe: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/736624442328092672 … :)
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Although camels are not recorded from pre-Conquest Britain, Aldhelm—Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey & Bishop of Sherborne—is said to have made use of a camel as a pack animal when travelling back to England from Rome in the late 7th century… http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/camels-in-early-medieval-western-europe.html …pic.twitter.com/ilh0F9uOhA
Of course, not impossible that camels were present in Anglo-Saxon England & just not recorded; def were camels in 10th-century German & Polish menageries, as well as in 9thC Carolingian Francia (Pic=camels in the Old English Hexateuch, written in Late Saxon England, c.1025-50).pic.twitter.com/c9dWo67RrZ
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Prof Diane Watt
In this context, worth noting that there do seem to have been menageries in Anglo-Saxon England; not only are peacock remains known from two sites (one Middle Saxon, one Late Saxon), but there's also some documentary evidence from the 10th century: https://twitter.com/Diane_Watt/status/1041665982631223296 … :)
Dr Caitlin Green added,
An early 8th-century Anglo-Saxon coin with an image of a crested peacock on the reverse, minted at Hamwic (Southampton) and found on the Isle of Wight: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/911246 …pic.twitter.com/1k2h2ouTRr
A kneeling camel misericord carving (c.1390), in the Church of St Botolph, Boston, Lincolnshire: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hunky_punk/15411603161 …pic.twitter.com/CzL0b7cY4n
Did the Romans bring exotic animals to Europe.
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