Also in @RoyalCornwall, the famous Artognou slate found in 1998 at Tintagel, Cornwall, a major 5th-6thC site :)pic.twitter.com/7OqVoUiv8s
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This is an interesting read on the 'tourist experience' at Tintagel, "A Disgruntled Tourist in King Arthurs Court":https://www.academia.edu/583621/Disgruntled_Tourist_in_King_Arthurs_Court_Archaeology_and_Identity_at_Tintagel_Cornwall …
@caitlinrgreen Last time I went to Tintagel there was a Mitsubishi Zero flying about
@maximpetergriff Did you take cover in the tunnel?!
@caitlinrgreen weirdly I was holding a model of one at the time ( I was 6 )
@maximpetergriff Did you check to see if the one in your hand controlled the one in the sky...? ;)
@caitlinrgreen that notion was mentioned at the time
A very good archaeological survey of Cornwall from 1986, now available to download for free :) http://cornisharchaeology.org.uk/vol25.htm pic.twitter.com/bueP4opz2c
A 7thC bar-lug cauldron/cooking pot from Gwithian, Cornwall, in @Cornwall_Museum Gwithian: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/gwithian_eh_2007/ …pic.twitter.com/6jSLnyWNUD
11thC incised cross on slate, poss headstone/altar panel, found at St Julitta's chapel, Tintagel; in @Cornwall_Museumpic.twitter.com/j7SEreVtom
L5/E6thC imported tableware from Asia Minor in Britain, via http://potsherd.net/atlas/Ware/PRSW -- c.50% of total is from Tintagelpic.twitter.com/kyajDyCZtv
Distrib of L5/E6thC PRSW tableware in Britain & the W Mediterranean; Campbell's 2007 maps via https://www.academia.edu/7835510/Does_the_evidence_of_imported_pottery_and_glass_in_Post-Roman_Celtic_Britain_suggest_large_scale_trading_with_the_Mediterranean_and_the_continent_or_just_occasional_contact …pic.twitter.com/V8QsBZ2gyk
Interesting recent discussion of eastern Mediterranean imports into L5/E6thC Ireland+Britain: https://www.academia.edu/538307/Kelly_A._2010_The_Discovery_of_Phocaean_Red_Slip_Ware_PRSW_Form_3_and_Bii_ware_LR1_amphorae_at_Collierstown_in_County_Meath_-_an_analysis_within_a_broader_framework._Proceedings_of_the_Royal_Irish_Academy_110_35-88 …pic.twitter.com/Z66EbJUV2A
For interest, Oliver Padel's brief article on Tintagel now at http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/tintagel-castle/history-and-legend/history/ … w/ a new reconstruction :)pic.twitter.com/GNu2ZrCKWP
A coloured plan of Tintagel in the 16thC, perhaps drawn c. 1560: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/a/001cotaugi00002u00043000.html …pic.twitter.com/8uERmniWl5
@caitlinrgreen You might be interested to know we're working on a new exhibition at Tintagel, opening early July :)
@SueGreaney oh, fabulous! Thanks for the info---love Tintagel, both historically and folkloricly! :)
@caitlinrgreen @medievalhistory Tintagel is beautiful especially if it's not sunny. Seagulls fly all over the ruins of the castle
@caitlinrgreen That is very interesting. Thank you very much for sharing.
@caitlinrgreen I got engaged there. The good lady didn't expect a proposal in the showers and wind of October
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