Romano-British pottery in the fifth- to sixth-century Lincoln region — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/06/romano-british-pottery-fifth-century-lincoln.html …pic.twitter.com/Yp3vMN6QK6
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Not only RB pottery production in Lincs region into mid5thC+? Also poss evidence for villa etc maintenance into 5thChttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/589356578161188865 …
See also the large villa overlooking Louth+coast at Welton le Wold, where a v high-status ?5thC silver handpin foundhttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/540872965941121024 …
Also relevant is 5th-6thC British church in Lincoln's forum, held c.100 ppl, replaced by Christian cem from L6thC :)pic.twitter.com/v8Ia34qwRm
See also the following too, perhaps, for further context :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/526334077281263617 …
Re: 'post-Roman' Britain, note also the Vergilius Romanus: arguably made in L5thC Britain! (http://www.archaeologyuk.org/ba/ba32/Ba32feat.html#dark …)https://twitter.com/ParvaVox/status/752774835391066112 …
Dido and Aeneas banqueting in the Vergilius Romanus, poss produced in L5thC Britain http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3867 … (f.100v)pic.twitter.com/AZVUl5d7wu
Dido+Aenaes shelter from Juno's storm, w/ 2 smiling horses; drawn L5thC Britain? http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.3867 … (VR f.106r)pic.twitter.com/12EOJ36kE3
Can see this as precursor to/influence on Marc Chagall.
Hah! Interesting idea! :)
Well worth browsing this site; lots of intriguing maps eg Roman domestic vs imported pottery :) https://englaid.com/2015/01/09/mapping-pottery/ …pic.twitter.com/Sq68TtBtvP
Can these be taken as population distributions?
No, doesn't work! Appears to largely reflect usage with sizeable areas not really using much pottery or a variety of types etc...
Roman-type pots used for Anglian cremations at Cleatham, Lincs, prob products of 5thC 'post-Roman' British potters: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/06/romano-british-pottery-fifth-century-lincoln.html …pic.twitter.com/W1zhYnKhgu
Greyware sherd of same type as the Roman-style pots from Cleatham cremation cemetery, Lincolnshire; suggested to date from the mid-5thC by Kevin Leahy & found near Littleborough on the Trent: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/575261 …pic.twitter.com/gaAAcsuKIp
For interest, a 5thC tile kiln from Roman London, via https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/london-in-the-not-so-dark-ages …; report: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/greylit/details.cfm?id=25537&det=y …pic.twitter.com/TSdq4fn1KD
that warm glow in the Marches must be due to Wroxeter effect, v. little else known anywhere else
Yes, must be! Fwiw, evidence from 5th-6thC Lincoln makes Barker's Wroxeter look less lonely -- adds weight/counter scepticism?
... environs or surrounding counties! Would be nice if it were true though!
Oh, I have scepticism too re: some if suggestions etc! But wonder if recent Antiquity article doesn't go too far & would >
> say that Lincoln offers possible support to idea of towns in 5thC, esp as have decent dating evidence! Of course, other >
> in interesting & concerning thing re: Lincoln & towns generally is that if hadn't excavated just the right spot &c >
> then would have missed 5th-6thC evidence & have virtually nothing... :-/
yes - I can see towns surviving / thriving and working well within their landscapes in S and E - as well as coastlines >
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