Weymouth mass-burial, c.970-1025, w/ remains of 51 decapitated Vikings, 1 of whom could have been from Greenland...!pic.twitter.com/FwrkxY6QPO
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Weymouth mass-burial, c.970-1025, w/ remains of 51 decapitated Vikings, 1 of whom could have been from Greenland...!pic.twitter.com/FwrkxY6QPO
A possible mass-grave of an executed 10th-century Viking raiding party, St John's College, Oxford:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263242415_%27Sprouting_like_cockle_amongst_the_wheat%27_The_St_Brice%27s_Day_Massacre_and_the_isotopic_analysis_of_human_bones_from_St_John%27s_College_Oxford …
The 'Gloucester Goth', prob grew up 'way outside the Roman Empire' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/8298825.stm … & http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/10026/1/BA_Gloucester_Goth_article_for_NORA.pdf …pic.twitter.com/33VTYUszfH
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/OpPqYnaaQx
A 6thC oral legend of the Goths having once been enslaved in Britain, as reported by Jordanes: http://people.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html …pic.twitter.com/ku39AXREKl
The allusion to "Britain or some other island" is interesting. Perhaps reference to mythical origins on island in the North?
And a different origin myths altogether?
Fascinating isn't it!? Would love to know more of these oral tales!
Absolutely. Enslavement on an island, redemption by a certain man for the cost of a horse. Orally trans. origin myth to me.
Bronze Age beads, prob Baltic amber, found Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, w/ boy from S. Iberia: http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2010/09/27/heat-mediterranean …pic.twitter.com/h8plnE1mui
really thought these were honey nut cheerios at first glance
Hah! Yes, see what you mean! :)
Two lovely 5thC Scandinavian Nydam-style/Style I gilded silver brooches from Kent: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/129594 …pic.twitter.com/kFSGU1WtpX
The 7th–9thC cemetery at Bamburgh—the 'royal city' of Northumbria—has multiple ppl who may be Scandinavian migrants: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.22290/abstract …pic.twitter.com/uGUbu1pRs7
(Incidentally, pic is Bamburgh Castle from Holy Island: https://www.flickr.com/photos/90664717@N00/1463451575 …)
@caitlinrgreen that is very clear must have sprung from Doggerland so a developed trading culture from Urals to Atlas into caspian *!)
@HyettNeal Def worth recalling Doggerland common heritage, but lack much evidence for intervening Late Mesolithic/Neolithic contact...?
@caitlinrgreen The dig at Whittlesey nr Peterborough from two round houses caught fire UOC now digging in news todaypic.twitter.com/i3qtEmQldI
.@caitlinrgreen Britain has been a melting pot from long time; this is my impression after I read your blogs; e.g.https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/686633946633875456 …
@Archatgs Thank you, I agree---particularly intriguing how African and Scandinavian/E European signals often at same sites...
@caitlinrgreen Same sites; very good notice, very early melting :)
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