A 'Gothic' type brooch, 2nd/3rdC AD---origins in Pontic/Balkan regions, found Oxfordshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/635629 …pic.twitter.com/zfrOsO0LcC
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A 'Gothic' type brooch, 2nd/3rdC AD---origins in Pontic/Balkan regions, found Oxfordshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/635629 …pic.twitter.com/zfrOsO0LcC
The famous E5thC 'Kingsholm Goth' from Gloucester; isotope analysis appears to confirm eastern European origins :) http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/10026/1/BA_Gloucester_Goth_article_for_NORA.pdf …
Finally, Guy Halsall's suggestion that the British writer Gildas (c.500) had a Gothic name: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k9Rjq8EnQ44C&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/abnXRlqF0t
Fwiw, Halsall is not first to note the difficulty over the name Gildas & its resemblance to the Mauretanian Gildo:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=q2U3i1X8B50C&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24#v=onepage&q&f=false …
@caitlinrgreen Dr Caitlin did u see the tweets a 9th century Muslim ring was found in sweden as well as a samanid time jar
@Umarkarim89 They're wonderful :)
@caitlinrgreen Yes amazing it is so beautiful and more evidence in support of your work :)
Does that tie in with the "King Arthur from Scythia" thesis, as seen in the Clive Owen movie?
It might, as might this too (https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/721072655621877761 …), though the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' has serious evidential problems...!
@caitlinrgreen Scythia seems a popular place for medieval peoples to set an origin story. Must have been a very busy place in the mythic age
@tomod14 absolutely! Though it's pretty busy in reality in that era too!
@caitlinrgreen as prisoners in Kent (?)
@HyettNeal unclear -- could be entirely legendary, or something to do with Goths in Roman army, or.....
@caitlinrgreen roman army sounds most plausible drawn from East frontier
@caitlinrgreen Was it Bede who said Picts came from Scythia?
@Tweets2CV I do recall that :)
@caitlinrgreen Well he would have knew them very likely! May even have spoke their language! Not bad for a Crowlander!
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