Anchor is 1 of 2 Mediterranean anchors found at Plymouth, the other prob 3rdC BC-mid1stC AD: http://www.promare.co.uk/ships/Finds/Fd_10A05Anchor.html …pic.twitter.com/KVult8MEM6
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Anchor is 1 of 2 Mediterranean anchors found at Plymouth, the other prob 3rdC BC-mid1stC AD: http://www.promare.co.uk/ships/Finds/Fd_10A05Anchor.html …pic.twitter.com/KVult8MEM6
Add in ?2ndC BC ex from Porth Felen, Wales, & have 3 from Britain now...looks like a pattern?! http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-9270.1977.tb01011.x/abstract …pic.twitter.com/3PNqOty5V2
A poss Roman anchor+chain of 1st half of 1stC AD from Dorset: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_ewgzGUGXccC&lpg=PA438&pg=PA438#v=onepage&q&f=false … (pic=http://dorsetsea.swgfl.org.uk/html/seafaring/poole/cargo.htm …)pic.twitter.com/fw6Y2uvcRX
Have drogue stone type anchors ever been found in Britain?
Lots of pierced stones of poss early type from Plymouth Sound, but question is whether typologies are credible or if could be modern etc!
I love reading the continuing discoveries of you remaining professional polymaths! Please keep posting updates.
Also discusses prehistoric cem in Kent where 20% of ppl appear to have grown up in N Africa... http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end …pic.twitter.com/A39PwHb2no
This is based on isotopic analysis of the teeth of the ppl interred there in the 1st millennium BC, from Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age.
I remain fascinated by this research on Punic connections to Britain. Wonder what LA Waddell would think of this verification of his work?
Interesting question! The combination of isotope evidence, archaeology, numismatics and names is certainly intriguing...!
It's neat because it's a much broader confirmation than the traditionally accepted "Phoenicians traded for tin in Cornwall" connection.
Indeed! Much harder to ignore, I think :)
Post also discusses Poole Iron Age port once more: 2 piers, up to 160m long+8m wide, paved stone surface of Purbeck marble, + 3rd/4thC BC >
> Earliest harbour structures in NW Europe, & best parallels=Mediterranean, a point also made in Time Team on Poole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gUmSTbzqpc …
Fwiw, interesting to note that a 4thC BC Siculo-Punic coin was recovered from the shore of Poole Harbour according to BM Quarterly 1936...
@caitlinrgreen again I think there will be a lot uncovered and not only now; but in drawers in various places; -0)
@HyettNeal Alas, prob v true!
For interest, bull figurine dug up in E19thC Cornwall, var thought to be Phoenician, Late Egyptian, Roman or Greek..!pic.twitter.com/2tmqkQryLh
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