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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Needless to say, find implies that at least 1 Mediterranean ship may have entered the 'Tamar Estuary Iron Age coastal node' pre-Pytheas...
@caitlinrgreen yes it does so therefore lead/tin etc out .... and pottery/wares etc in.... viable trade Same in Brittany I expect
@HyettNeal suspect so! :)
There are, incidentally, 2 other Mediterranean anchors found in British waters, both of 2nd-E1stC BC, from Plymouth & Porth Felen (N. Wales)
@caitlinrgreen @morangles Atlántic trade must have been really important, no wonder why romans built Torre de Hercules in such a place
@old_spinster @caitlinrgreen @morangles very interesting. Nice to have a glimpse back in history.
@JudithHaseleu @old_spinster @caitlinrgreen pb is that doors are in middle of frescoes!
@morangles @old_spinster @caitlinrgreen what a shame.
@caitlinrgreen Weren't there explorers sent here from Greece around then ? Seem to remember reading a book on the subject
@maximpetergriff Pytheas, a Greek, was here in the 4thC BC, and there's also the earlier Massaliote Periplus (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massaliote_Periplus …) :)
@caitlinrgreen @maximpetergriff never met a PERIPLUS I didn't like; this one new to me.
%%robert
@chopin_slut @maximpetergriff Alas, doesn't survive in original form, but still fascinating! :)
@caitlinrgreen those people making these discoveries are indeed extra ordinary taking out these things from depths of sea
@Umarkarim89 Agreed, and nature of them suggests represent genuine losses from ships potentially! :)
@caitlinrgreen yeah indeed ! How many sailors died in these sip wrecks such a history
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