Ah, but is this decline or change? Need to check that against empire-wide trends, after all: lots of evidence of similar?
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A fair Q. There is also interesting evidence that Vindo's 5th C stone-builders were more talented/"Roman" than the late 4th C
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Old coins still used for trade even. But it all feels hyper-local. No evidence of incoming goods, coins. Just subsistence
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True, but lack of much in way of Roman coinage/imports common too---same at Lincoln, but forum in use; same at Wroxeter too, >
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> and Castor, where Roman palace poss maintained to 7thC? Also cf northern half of Gaul?pic.twitter.com/dC0DE2Q08K
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> Shift to wood etc from L4thC there, but not interpreted in same way as Britain.Also Italy from L6thCpic.twitter.com/h8nMnwBTmk
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Thx much for the great clips! Fascinating to see what we know & what we don't. Hadrian's Wall tho had its own twist... (1/2)
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(2/2) It was always reliant on outside for resources, esp food. When that contact died out, survival could look very unRoman.
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(3??/2) And Vindolanda, unlike, say, Carlisle or Lincoln, did truly die. I love the mystery of who its very last people were
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I guess my point is not so much that the wall was like Lincoln, but that we need to be wary of going too 'Dark Age' in our >
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> conception of the nature of 'post-Roman' polities—evidence in Britain not that dissimilar to continent+signs of continuing >
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @STORI3D_PAST
> Romanitas from key places etc into 6thC—cf here Guy Halsall's caution? :)
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