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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.

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    Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Sep 2015

    A great host of captives? A note on Vikings in Morocco+Africans in early med Ireland+Britain http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/09/a-great-host-of-captives.html …pic.twitter.com/CCSxgkItGp

    12:13 PM - 12 Sep 2015
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Al-Bakrī's 11thC account of the mid-9thC Viking raid on Nakūr [Nekor, Morocco], from his Book of Roads and Kingdoms:pic.twitter.com/Lg0bcmZb1y

        4 replies 42 retweets 39 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 13 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Potential evidence from mice bones for Vikings on the island of Madeira in 903–1036 cal AD: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1780/20133126 …pic.twitter.com/cyz3r8wHWi

        5 replies 37 retweets 62 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 13 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Post also mentions the 3 poss burials of African women from 9th-11thC England, incl N. Elmham burial discussed here: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1311/1/1311.pdf 

        3 replies 11 retweets 13 likes
      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        In 2013, another poss burial found Gloucs, said to be of a woman from Sub-Saharan Africa+dated 896-1025 AD:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-24106956 …

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      2. Simon Dowling‏ @Odubhlainn 13 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen There's a local trackway known as "Boreen na mBan gorm" close to the Viking City of Waterford http://www.odwyer.net/~dunmore/stories/bothar.htm …

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 13 Sep 2015
        Replying to @Odubhlainn

        @Odubhlainn Oh, very interesting indeed! Thank you---will have to look into this! :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Simon Dowling‏ @Odubhlainn 13 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen It's a bit of a local enigma, and runs along this headland with steps to the water at the endhttp://binged.it/1QxbSlX 

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Vox Hiberionacum‏ @VoxHib 13 Sep 2015
        Replying to @Odubhlainn

        @Odubhlainn @caitlinrgreen Very interesting. Doubt its Viking though. Clearly a well used maritime access point on 1st OS...

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      6. Vox Hiberionacum‏ @VoxHib 13 Sep 2015
        Replying to @VoxHib

        @Odubhlainn @caitlinrgreen Maybe @Limerick1914 can help? Any big slave traders using Waterford port, Liam?

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 13 Sep 2015
        Replying to @VoxHib

        @VoxHiberionacum @Odubhlainn @caitlinrgreen Earliest known presence of enslaved Africans in Munster in the early modern period is in 1591.

        2 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
      8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 13 Sep 2015
        Replying to @Limerick1914

        @Limerick1914 @VoxHiberionacum @Odubhlainn Out of curiosity, any arch evidence for African ppl in early med Ireland like that from Norfolk?

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Vox Hiberionacum‏ @VoxHib 13 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen @Limerick1914 @Odubhlainn via @irarchaeology ... http://irisharchaeology.ie/2015/03/immigrant-burials-in-late-iron-age-meath/ …

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      2. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 12 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen wow quite a revelation but indeed possible that they might have reached the iberian coast

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Sep 2015
        Replying to @Umarkarim89

        @Umarkarim89 Definitely in Iberia and also at least once in North Africa, on basis on material other than the Irish annals! :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 12 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen obviously makes lots sense logically too.Muslim Histories of the time must also be explored as if they relate any such thing

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      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Sep 2015
        Replying to @Umarkarim89

        @Umarkarim89 oh, yes, definitely!

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 12 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen Yes as Muslims have captured the whole of North Africa by the mids of the 8th century so in 9th century they were there

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      7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Sep 2015
        Replying to @Umarkarim89

        @Umarkarim89 Absolutely! And Muslim writers def mention the Vikings, see last tweet which was prob based on earlier material!

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Umarkarim‏ @Umarkarim89 12 Sep 2015
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @caitlinrgreen Read the whole thing wonderful and very interesting. If i had been knowledgeable of Arabic would have worked on it :)

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 12 Sep 2015
        Replying to @Umarkarim89

        @Umarkarim89 Thanks! It's certainly an interesting topic :)

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