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
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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
@caitlinrgreen ahhh so beautiful marvellous
@Umarkarim89 a different kind of beauty to the gold or the amethyst from yesterday, but still gorgeous :)
@caitlinrgreen I was gifted with very beautiful rings but only when i was born and even if i wore them dont remember now :)
@Umarkarim89 interesting---family heirlooms?! :)
@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 :)
@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
@Umarkarim89 That's a lovely story :) And I didn't know that about gold.
Three glass beads from E6-7thC Anglo-Saxon cemetery that was also found at Cliffs End, Thanet https://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/51568412/in/photostream/ …pic.twitter.com/UIchKaCVmy
Another lovely, & v large, Anglo-Saxon bead---suggested poss "magical", found in grave in Oxon http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/m/magical_glass_bead.aspx …pic.twitter.com/a8yzuJAZh1
@caitlinrgreen that is beautiful
@JaneGrover1 It really is quite exceptional! :)
Btw, added ref to this cem to fn10 of post---obvs supports plausibility of contact between Africa/Iberia+Britain :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html …
@caitlinrgreen Did Vikings use Thanet as a base to wage their raids?
@Archatgs For a period in the mid-9thC they seem to have---overwintered there in the 850s!
A Sicilian strumento of c.1200 BC, found on sea-floor at Salcombe, Devon, w/ other BA items http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3103707&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/qQz7lqJJ10
Other items date c.1300-1150 BC, possibly cargo of ocean-going vessel? See further http://www.archaeologyuk.org/ba/ba91/feat2.shtml … & http://www.thefreelibrary.com/From+Sicily+to+Salcombe%3A+a+Mediterranean+Bronze+Age+object+from...-a0177449641 …
@caitlinrgreen
How interesting, I'll read that tomorrow, thanks
@GrassfarmerNick Sadly link only includes forward and summary, but yes, is intriguing! :)
@caitlinrgreen
Thanks, I realise I'm only an uneducated sheep farmer, but I'm very interested in this
@GrassfarmerNick lol! It is intriguing, has to be admitted, esp as significant proportion of the other ppl in cem may be from Scandinavia!
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