Westernmost Roman inscription on map found 250km west of Ireland, 2ndC AD greyware pot dredged up on Porcupine Bankhttps://twitter.com/carolemadge/status/702078933752217600 …
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(Fwiw, while may well be Roman-era loss, is some poss evidence for ppl from Nile Delta in pre-Roman Britain...! See http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html …)
(Of course, cemetery w/ people with oxygen isotope results equivalent to those from Mendes, Egypt, is in Kent, not Cornwall, but hey! ;) :)
Drawing of the St Just Apis bull is from the Archaeological Journal, 1850 http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1132-1/dissemination/pdf/007/007_008-016_120.pdf …pic.twitter.com/B5CNu37ulX
For interest, a 7thC BC seal w/ Phoenician inscription, found 19thC at Dundrum, N. Ireland: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1553740&partId=1&place=42363&matcult=15652&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/xmwYEjvqVo
Skull of a Barbary ape from N. Africa, poss deposited 250–100 BC & found Navan Fort, Ireland http://irisharchaeology.ie/2014/05/a-barbary-ape-skull-from-navan-fort-co-armagh/ …pic.twitter.com/JLVL0g4okR
Skeleton of a 14thC North African monkey (Macaca sylvanus) found at Carrickfergus, N.Ireland http://www.archeo.ru/izdaniya-1/vagnejshije-izdanija/pdf/U_istokov_2007.pdf …pic.twitter.com/EKynIxgSJh
@caitlinrgreen @megalithophile @Cornwall_Museum Sailor bought it home for his sweetheart perhaps after the Battle of the Nile?!
@caitlinrgreen @JudyAuthor @Cornwall_Museum That's very interesting. Movement of people and cultures a fact of life from earliest times!
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