Distribution of amber in early Anglo-Saxon England--Sleaford has by far greatest concentration (6C necklace frm here)pic.twitter.com/ZcYbgxvaN2
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A paper on early Anglo-Saxon imports, old but worth reading: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol32/32_063_096.pdf …; Sleaford necklace is http://collection.britishmuseum.org/resource?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcollection.britishmuseum.org%2Fid%2Fobject%2FMCS1937&role=object … btw :)
@caitlinrgreen Sorry! Get interested in potential AS avenues, but obv am at slight disadvantage w/ material/scholarship. Liking Amber now!
@VoxHiberionacum Interesting :) Similar with imports & Romanitas in Iron Age S.Scand and post-Roman SW Britain, I guess? And amber is >
@VoxHiberionacum > intriguing! Esp early AS amber focus on Sleaford area, as (wild speculation time!) some of cremation urns from Sleaford >
@VoxHiberionacum > apparently have Baltic links, and local popn-group was Billingas cf. the N German/Baltic Billunger ;)
@caitlinrgreen Really? Intriguing. I never really rated early med amber here (before the Vikings), tho there is plenty in LBA. Makes sense.
@caitlinrgreen Bleedin' Scandinavian advance parties... ;)
@VoxHiberionacum Lol! V speculative but interesting--reading @HorneSupremacy's abstract earlier reminded me of it :) http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5255/
@caitlinrgreen ...wic/emporia as nodal points for distributing ideas as well as goods.
@VoxHiberionacum Interesting idea! Church/religious houses etc def had role in trade and wics too, e.g. Lundenwic.
@caitlinrgreen aye, perhaps even before. Remember reading some stuff by @SurreyMedieval on coins. Sceatta are interesting given continental
@caitlinrgreen @SurreyMedieval ..copying of motifs. If wealth/kingship became assoc with certain iconographies of power, perhaps led to...
@caitlinrgreen fascinating Christian iconography on those early AS coins & potential for portrayal/power/influence/top down 'conversion'...
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