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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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Following Hadrian 🧔🏻
Westernmost Roman inscription on map found 250km west of Ireland, 2ndC AD greyware pot dredged up on Porcupine Bankhttps://twitter.com/carolemadge/status/702078933752217600 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Pot inscribed with C PISCI FAGI & a graffito of an otter; further details and image here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/297059 pic.twitter.com/2Da2QLQPhM
More on this intriguing find from Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 1947, 35-82, via http://pmnhs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/051-PNV6N1MAY95.pdf …pic.twitter.com/r5SdCsRFNx
Barry Cunliffe on the Porcupine Bank find & possible explanations for why it was found there https://web.archive.org/web/20131105230706/http://www.archaeologyuk.org/ba/ba63/feat2.shtml …pic.twitter.com/KAFTKQH1rC
Another out-of-place find: 2ndC BC Ptolemaic statue, 48lbs, found 9ft down in Middlesex,1929 http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=120309&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/nfKdKKWRa6
A Late Period Egyptian figurine of an Apis bull, found St Just, Cornwall, in 1832; now in @Cornwall_Museumpic.twitter.com/3nS1XZIZxD
(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! ;) :)
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