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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
caitlingreen.org
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    Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 13 May 2016

    A 12thC belief that the king of England must not enter Lincoln — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/sinister-omens-idle-traditions-twelfth.html …pic.twitter.com/vOOHCBrdxI

    2:11 AM - 13 May 2016
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    • Fitzjimi Shafi Musaddique Michael Deacon Jamal Jafri Sadie Hirst Steve Cranley Umarkarim Rodger 5 MBadNauheim
    13 replies 138 retweets 249 likes
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 13 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        St Mary's Guildhall, Lincoln, & St Peter-at-Gowts in 1784—Guildhall built as royal townhouse outside city in 1150s?pic.twitter.com/UQmXsgeBIa

        5 replies 42 retweets 69 likes
      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 13 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        The mid-12thC St Mary's Guildhall, Lincoln http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-486049-st-mary-s-guildhall-lincolnshire/photos … & http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/lincs/properties/St-Marys-Guildhall.htm …pic.twitter.com/LtjE5K4YXo

        4 replies 14 retweets 34 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Jul 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Another surviving 12thC building in Lincoln is the Jew's House, built c. 1170 with a first floor hall (my pic)pic.twitter.com/y51TAshyCH

        6 replies 62 retweets 148 likes
      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Jul 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Once owned by Belaset, daughter of Solomon of Wallingford in 13thC; she was hanged in 1290.. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=326716&sort=4&search=all&criteria=bow%20stone&rational=q&recordsperpage=10&p=4&move=n&nor=71&recfc=0 …pic.twitter.com/S818OUks8b

        3 replies 7 retweets 21 likes
      6. Stamp & Coin Place‏ @stampandcoin 27 Jul 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Wow, hanged for coin clipping! Coins were serious business...

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Jul 2016
        Replying to @stampandcoin

        So it would seem... or seen as a useful excuse? :-/

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Stamp & Coin Place‏ @stampandcoin 27 Jul 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        And given the historical tendency to link Jews with dishonest financial dealings, it's suspect, at best.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 27 Jul 2016
        Replying to @stampandcoin

        Indeed :(

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      10. End of conversation
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 13 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        A contemporary account of King Stephen ignoring the Lincoln superstition, by Henry of Huntingdon, a canon of Lincolnpic.twitter.com/b7bqBP1HFY

        2 replies 1 retweet 11 likes
      3. George Rick‏ @GeorgeRick1 13 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Either that, or he just had common sense!

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 May 2016
        Replying to @GeorgeRick1

        Hah!

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      5. End of conversation
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Interestingly, Lincoln's medieval High Bridge has 2 arches on Speed's plan of 1603-11 (pic=https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/567453621775639281/ …)pic.twitter.com/xFwoyAI1zz

        3 replies 18 retweets 37 likes
      3. George Rick‏ @GeorgeRick1 24 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        @CatherineEsse navigation during the summer months when the water level dropped. Might the other arch have been removed then?

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Catherine Street‏ @CatherineEsse 25 May 2016
        Replying to @GeorgeRick1 @caitlinrgreen

        ? assume other evidence re bridge history exists? - another possibility is extra arch shown = artistic licence

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 May 2016
        Replying to @CatherineEsse @GeorgeRick1

        Arches mentioned in the plural in 1561 & said to be once 8 of them...!

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Catherine Street‏ @CatherineEsse 25 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen @GeorgeRick1

        would make sense, had always imagined that whole area to be wet/marshy, w/Witham much less canalised than now

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 May 2016
        Replying to @CatherineEsse @GeorgeRick1

        If helps, this is the suggested landscape in Roman era from fab City by the Pool (2003)pic.twitter.com/hDqJYVaLt4

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Catherine Street‏ @CatherineEsse 25 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen @GeorgeRick1

        ah yes :) thank you, as I'd envisaged - may even have read the book and forgotten :D

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      9. George Rick‏ @GeorgeRick1 25 May 2016
        Replying to @CatherineEsse @caitlinrgreen

        Thanks to both of you for the knowledge you've shared! I've been prowling the streets via Google Street View!

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Similar superstitions recorded of Leicester and Oxford, but later in date (13th-15thC)---derivative? http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/ref/collection/p15407coll6/id/16622 …

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Catherine Street‏ @CatherineEsse 23 May 2016
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        oh, I'm sure Lincoln was the original, and worthy of emulation! ;)

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 May 2016
        Replying to @CatherineEsse

        I'm beginning to suspect this to be the case... ;)

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. End of conversation

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