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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
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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Dec 2014

      The grave of a black woman in Late Saxon Norfolk, in 11thC cathedral cemetery at North Elmham (extract: EEA 9, 1980)pic.twitter.com/HHSekaSWEQ

      14 replies 61 retweets 53 likes
    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Dec 2014
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Some analysis in Helen Cayton's 1977 PhD thesis, pp. 224-6: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1311/1/1311.pdf  (extracts from pp.224, 225 & 226)pic.twitter.com/UGsgI5ypSQ

      4 replies 8 retweets 12 likes
    3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 30 Dec 2014
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Her remains apparently sent for DNA testing in 2009, be interesting to see what results show: http://www.norfolk.gov.uk/consumption/groups/public/documents/committee_report/archserv140509item9pdf.pdf …pic.twitter.com/9d3b2RzYB1

      2 replies 4 retweets 8 likes
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Sep 2015

      Quick update on this if anyone interested: chased it up, DNA testing unfortunately never completed due to the person doing it moving away...

      1:09 PM - 9 Sep 2015
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      • 🤺watthefu?#💣👀🖕 Ahmed Aloirati Umarkarim Registered Voter SC T S P Love Bootle OrganisedPauper
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        2. Registered Voter SC‏ @commish24 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen Oh drat. My students just asked about evidence of Africans in England in early medieval period--I was hoping for good news...

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @commish24

          @commish24 is still some poss evidence, incl at least 3 individuals id'd via skeletal analysis, but DNA would have made more secure :-/

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

          @commish24 Also this, of course, relating to 9thC Ireland: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/550306385507147777 … :)

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
          An ?11thC account of Vikings bringing "a great host" of slaves from N. Africa to 9thC Ireland: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100017/ … pic.twitter.com/GgMYBhqMJS
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        2. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen but the testing is done by a lab so individuals are not much important for that. Once u hv the data u can interpret it

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @Umarkarim89

          @Umarkarim89 sadly, they offered to do it, then relocated & no record of any results etc...

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen haaaaan but this is totally unprofessional. I mean if they were doing it y they left it in the midst? problem of funds?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @Umarkarim89

          @Umarkarim89 unclear; all I know is that they left the country and there's no report or results available :(

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        6. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen mm was it an official lab some private lab and who sent the remains? did they return the remains? sorry bt so many questions

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        2. OrganisedPauper‏ @OrganisedPauper 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen That's a damn shame.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @OrganisedPauper

          @OrganisedPauper agreed :(

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Clint Graves‏ @EaglePursuit 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen If the person is African in origin, could you speculate on what she was doing in Anglo-Saxon England?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @EaglePursuit

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

          @EaglePursuit various possibilities, incl something analogous to this from 9thC Ireland??https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/550306385507147777 …

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
          An ?11thC account of Vikings bringing "a great host" of slaves from N. Africa to 9thC Ireland: http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100017/ … pic.twitter.com/GgMYBhqMJS
          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        1. Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann‏ @BirgittaHoffman 10 Sep 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen thanks for chasing that up, another loose end query.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. T S P‏ @morangles 9 Sep 2015
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @caitlinrgreen either native Rome Septimus Severs was from Leptis Magna so African contact or via slavery trade route not so nice #byzantium

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann‏ @BirgittaHoffman 10 Sep 2015
          Replying to @morangles

          @morangles not Sept Severus with 11th c. Context. Slave background or traders wife more likely.

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. T S P‏ @morangles 10 Sep 2015
          Replying to @BirgittaHoffman

          @BirgittaHoffman true but must be open to every possibility notice did not say probability slave trade by Xians 10-11thC is still +/- taboo

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann‏ @BirgittaHoffman 10 Sep 2015
          Replying to @morangles

          @morangles given that I will be teaching Venetian history this autumn, for me Xian slave trade is not taboo, but the basis of a huge empire.

          5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. T S P‏ @morangles 10 Sep 2015
          Replying to @BirgittaHoffman

          @BirgittaHoffman absolutely @HistoryGems will agree who knows maybe severed slave trade being finally enforced led venetians to crusades

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. Dr. Birgitta Hoffmann‏ @BirgittaHoffman 10 Sep 2015
          Replying to @morangles

          @morangles @HistoryGems Venetians continued to trade with Arab world throughout Crusades, very open to opportunity, not very principled.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        8. T S P‏ @morangles 10 Sep 2015
          Replying to @BirgittaHoffman

          @BirgittaHoffman @HistoryGems in every action there is an original reaction like egg & chicken original conundrum what triggered venetians

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        9. T S P‏ @morangles 10 Sep 2015
          Replying to @morangles

          @BirgittaHoffman @HistoryGems upon which entering in spirit of medieval pilgrim aka retail therapy hee hee

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