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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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
@caitlinrgreen ie the coastlines only? Rest were less sophisticated?
@DorothyKing yes, def looks like a focussed coastal trade, which also involved wine/oil---thought to be linked to tin
@DorothyKing control of tin perhaps gave rulers at Tintagel etc big advantage, w/ this material then being used as elite gifts etc by them?
@DorothyKing (that's would be my suggestion anyway! I've argued in past that comparison to use of Roman imports in Scandinavia=useful :) )
@caitlinrgreen btw, do you know, is the 'tin' in 'Tintagel' a ref to its importance in trade - or coincidence?
@CatherineEsse coincidence, alas -- prob Cornish *din, 'fort', variant *tin, see end of Tintagel section of this :) http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/n&q/artharch.htm …
@caitlinrgreen ah, thought it might be - just like our prev conv re Lindsey/Linden - thanks :)
@caitlinrgreen Cornwall & Wales mainly.
@caitlinrgreen can we say that this trading connection between Cornwall/Wales & Roman N.Africa is the result of older relations & it kept>
.@caitlinrgreen > the memory of Roman Empire vivid in Welsh folklore in post-Roman era & for long time?
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