The Anglo-Saxons abroad? Some AS finds from France,Switzerland+Africa(!) — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/anglo-saxon-finds-france-africa.html …pic.twitter.com/ZQmMgWrITP
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NB, lies on a major overland routes between Med+Atlantic, Carcassonne Gap—see also Anglian slaves at Rome in 6thC?pic.twitter.com/eDGw2BISu6
Procopius mentions that some Angles were present at Constantinople in the mid6thC as part of a Frankish delegation:pic.twitter.com/ERQatapA9r
Merovingians claiming rule over Britain? That's a new one to me!
Yes, absolutely---see full quote with reference on the blog post page! :) Fascinating, no?! :)
Very! The Age of Migration for sure. Cheeky Merovingian though -- "I let a few settle, so sure, I own their country."
A fragment of a 6thC cruciform brooch of the same type, found Waithe, Lincolnshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/537478 …pic.twitter.com/Clagk250Ba
For interest, an Anglo-Saxon merchant named Botto based at Marseille in the eighth century (s.a. 790): http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000868.html?pageNo=17 …
Two 6th-century cruciform brooches of same rare type as the one found in southern France, both from Suffolk; another example is known from Lincolnshire: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=94587&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/Bfr6mgcVOj
For interest, a 5th-century buckle from Iruña, Northern Spain, that is very similar to one from Mucking:https://www.academia.edu/1125615/1999_Late_Roman_belts_in_Hispania_._Journal_of_Roman_Military_Equipment_Studies_vol._10_1999 …
@caitlinrgreen what's the date of that
@MarkBrierley1 Type dates 500-550 :)
@caitlinrgreen So the period of Frankish expansion into Aquitaine, Burgundy, Provence
@caitlinrgreen I certainly would have associated Castelnaudary NOT with AS!
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