A note on the evidence for African migrants in Bronze Age–Medieval Britain — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/a-note-on-evidence-for-african-migrants.html …pic.twitter.com/lnldjbZaKI
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Re: these names, worth noting again al-Idrisi's knowledge of southern+eastern Britain & dinars in L11/12thC England:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/719248330472230913 …
Al-Idrisi in 12thC on Hastings: 'a town of large extent+many inhabitants, flourishing+handsome, having markets, workpeople & rich merchants'
Abu'l-Fida on Britain from his E14thC Geography, based on 13thC work of Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi (trans. Dunlop, 1957)pic.twitter.com/yngi0Nwf5h
A final bit from Sa'id al-Maghribi in the 13thC, describing the transport of tin from England to Alexandria...pic.twitter.com/5HnKFQa2WL
Same route since the [Late?] Bronze Age
Def one of routes, though in Late Bronze Age/Iron Age etc Straits of Gibraltar almost certainly a route too :)
Also poss interesting is Paucamatus (=Bakmat?), living at Winchester 1159–81 & associated w/ a Stephanus Sarracenus? http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/prosopon/issue11-1.pdf …
Isotope analysis of medieval cem at Whithorn—1 woman has value consistent w/ early life spent in Nile Valley: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258051433_Isotope_analysis_of_bone_collagen_and_tooth_enamel …
Another medieval person who prob spent early life in N. Africa was found at Brompton Bridge, N.Yorks, on which seehttps://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1021210 …
Thomas of Walsingham's L14thC Chronicon Angliæ recounts a tale of a Saracen physician in the Welsh Marches in 1344:pic.twitter.com/S6F94QCiMK
Proto NHS. I always thought Cornwall was full of Pre-Roman Punic tin miners. Any evidence?
Went v much out of fashion, but now looking much more plausible IMHO :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/590444130351902720 …
some things never change 
there had been a definite lack of camels this week 

fixed for you ;)
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