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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
caitlingreen.org
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    Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Apr 2015

    Thanet, Tanit & the Phoenicians: Names, Archaeology & Pre-Roman Trading Settlements in Kent? http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html …pic.twitter.com/Npezp0bx9f

    2:17 AM - 21 Apr 2015
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Apr 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        A Carthaginian coin with the head of Tanit, found Kent but minted in the 3rdC BC in Sardinia https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/266577 …pic.twitter.com/M4H8HdYXPQ

        2 replies 50 retweets 47 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Apr 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Here's the PAS record for the 3rdC Carthaginian coin found between Bath & Bristol that featured in the media, btw: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/534879 …

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Apr 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Suggestion is that name Thanet is Punic 'Y TNT, 'Isle (of) Tanit', the Carthaginian goddess--prob orig name of island Cadiz built on too :)

        9 replies 19 retweets 30 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Apr 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        One of several names that recent work suggests could derive from Proto-Semitic/Punic roots--another is Rame Head, IA fort by Plymouth Sound.

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Apr 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        This prehistoric cem on Thanet is intriguing, btw: 20% appear to have grown up in Med, poss. N Africa/SW Iberia...https://www.academia.edu/10479964/Cliffs_End_Farm_Isle_of_Thanet_Kent._A_mortuary_and_ritual_site_of_the_Bronze_Age_Iron_Age_and_Anglo-Saxon_Period_with_evidence_for_long-distance_maritime_mobility …

        6 replies 14 retweets 25 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Apr 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Amber beads from E6-7thC Anglo-Saxon cemetery that was also found at Cliffs End, Thanet, Kent https://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/51568414/in/photostream/ …pic.twitter.com/K37xt4A0v4

        1 reply 19 retweets 27 likes
      4. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 30 Apr 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen ahhh so beautiful marvellous

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      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Apr 2015
        Replying to @Umarkarim89

        @Umarkarim89 a different kind of beauty to the gold or the amethyst from yesterday, but still gorgeous :)

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 30 Apr 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen I was gifted with very beautiful rings but only when i was born and even if i wore them dont remember now :)

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      7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Apr 2015
        Replying to @Umarkarim89

        @Umarkarim89 interesting---family heirlooms?! :)

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 30 Apr 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen My uncle (late) brought for me a ring but lost in the bus but then some passengers found it and he came with the ring :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 30 Apr 2015
        Replying to @Umarkarim89

        @caitlinrgreen so perhaps that ring was written 4 me in destiny.Muslim men r forbidden to wear gold so they wear silver rings bt 4 babies ok

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Aug 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        For interest, a 7thC BC seal w/ Phoenician inscription, found in 19thC at Dundrum, N. Ireland: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1553740&partId=1&place=42363&matcult=15652&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/RnyWb2LLDx

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Aug 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Inscription reads 'Belonging to 'Abd'Il'ib, son of Shib'at, servant of Mititti, son of Ṣidqa', further details here:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=q6uJ1qgYabEC&pg=PA162&lpg=PA162#v=onepage&q&f=true …

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 13 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        A rather nice map of the Isle of Thanet and Sandwich Marsh as it appeared in 1548: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/a/001cotaugi00001u00054000.html …pic.twitter.com/gEpUi4sK1q

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      2. Jane Johnson‏ @JaneJohnsonBakr 23 Jul 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Also Mousehole in Cornwall long rumoured to derive from Phoenician words for 'fresh water' like various Mosuls in Middle-east

        1 reply 3 retweets 6 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Jul 2016
        Replying to @JaneJohnsonBakr

        Nice idea! Oliver Padel confidently assigns to Old English, unlike Rame which he leaves inexplicable (cf. Ramallah etc), >

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Jul 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen @JaneJohnsonBakr

        >so it would fall into a different category of names+thus be subject to caution (i.e. ones w/ possible non-PrSem etymology)

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