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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
Joined August 2014

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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 May 2016

      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

      65 replies 883 retweets 945 likes
    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 May 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      13thC 'Ipswich Man' featured on BBC in 2010; grew up in N. Africa+bone report notes 1 of 9 African ppl in this cem! http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1922-1/dissemination/pdf/Reports_SiteSpecific/IAS5003_skels_revised_2009.pdf …

      6 replies 103 retweets 131 likes
    3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 6 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      A 1259 writ of Henry III concerning 'an Ethiopian of the name of Bartholomew' in England: http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/patentrolls/h3v5/body/Henry3vol5page0028.pdf …pic.twitter.com/o0jaORnl4I

      5 replies 100 retweets 109 likes
    4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 6 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      A man named Mahumet (Muhammad) living & duelling in mid-twelfth-century Wiltshire, 1160–65: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/prosopon/issue11-1.pdf …pic.twitter.com/Lt7pX6Z0Bl

      21 replies 368 retweets 446 likes
    5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 6 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Mahumet's duel was w/ John de Merleberge=Marlborough, Wiltshire; fwiw, a Theobald, son of Mahumet, is also recorded from E13thC Hampshire...

      3 replies 44 retweets 44 likes
    6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 7 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Another Mahomet (Muhammad) recorded 1327, when Edward III issued him+6 others a pardon at Newton-on-Ouse, Yorks, for 'offenses in Ireland'

      5 replies 29 retweets 49 likes
    7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 7 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

      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 …

      Dr Caitlin Green added,

      Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
      Islamic gold dinars in late eleventh- and twelfth-century England -- new brief post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/islamic-gold-dinars-anglo-norman.html … pic.twitter.com/wUWAM8C7kn
      2 replies 46 retweets 64 likes
    8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 7 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Al-Idrisi in 12thC on Hastings: 'a town of large extent+many inhabitants, flourishing+handsome, having markets, workpeople & rich merchants'

      2 replies 35 retweets 44 likes
    9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      5 replies 86 retweets 106 likes
    10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Harun ibn Yahya, a late 9th-century traveller, on Britain; account preserved by Ibn Rustah: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html …pic.twitter.com/Ig41PQ25uX

      5 replies 90 retweets 102 likes
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jun 2016

      Vikings in Morocco & Africans in 9th-11thC Ireland and England: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/09/a-great-host-of-captives.html …pic.twitter.com/9xPm4qgCA4

      3:51 PM - 16 Jun 2016
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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          11thC 'Fragmentary Annals of Ireland' similarly tells of 9thC raid on Morocco & a 'great host' of captives taken:pic.twitter.com/U2MmIoq82b

          2 replies 19 retweets 23 likes
        3. pete hall‏ @peterctid1965 17 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          That's a hell of a paddle in a coracle.

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Jun 2016
          Replying to @peterctid1965

          More a longship, I think! :)

          0 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Post mentions 3 poss burials of African women in 9th-11thC England, incl N. Elmham burial discussed here: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1311/1/1311.pdf  pp.224-6

          1 reply 31 retweets 44 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Another African woman, aged 18-24, was found at Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 2013—radiocarbon dated to AD 896–1025:http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/10688142.Schoolboys_amazed_that_skeleton_is_1_000_year_old_African_woman/ …

          8 replies 102 retweets 81 likes
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Hadrian, the L7-E8thC Abbot of St Augustine's,Canterbury, was 'a man of African race' (Bede) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=egy-k7LV-e4C&lpg=PA170&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/ze0xufAot7

          6 replies 122 retweets 117 likes
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

          In this context, worth noting that multiple ppl buried at 7th-9thC Bamburgh may well have African origin too... Seehttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/657981747154522112 …

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
          Some oxygen isotope evidence for Africans in Britain, c. 1100 BC–AD 800---new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html … pic.twitter.com/fUiIFCbj9r
          1 reply 57 retweets 61 likes
        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Similarly, 2 people in the 7thC monastic cemetery at Ely may well have grown up in N Africa http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6135608&fileId=S0003581509990102 …pic.twitter.com/xWbw7AZUOm

          6 replies 41 retweets 73 likes
        7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Isotope evidence for poss movement between South Wales & Byzantine N. Africa in the 5th-7thC http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031300023X …pic.twitter.com/jmcswBsf2Q

          9 replies 98 retweets 115 likes
        8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 19 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A woman in the 4th-7thC cem at Balladoole, Isle of Man, may similarly have N.African origins http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440314003185 …pic.twitter.com/hlvEjP2NmF

          2 replies 38 retweets 41 likes
        9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

          Period with highest proportion of sites w/ prob evidence for people from N.Africa is, of course, the Roman era e.g.https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744286383771127808 …

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen
          Interesting paper on 2 cemeteries from Roman York suggesting considerable diversity then: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.21104/abstract … pic.twitter.com/Qd3QpZXHKZ
          1 reply 33 retweets 41 likes
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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Madinat en-Nakur=earliest Muslim city in Morocco, E8thC—now site of modern dam. Excavations: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00438243.1983.9979875?journalCode=rwar20 …pic.twitter.com/1kt0OkS04D

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        2. Crispy Zebra  ❄‏ @zebra_crispy 17 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          @Rachel5742 I've been researching this for a while now - the sons of Ragnar Lothbrok - fascinating👍

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Jun 2016
          Replying to @zebra_crispy @Rachel5742

          Absolutely! :)

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        1. Jonathan Dance‏ @jonthanND 16 Jun 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          you are on a roll today!

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        1. El Sid‏ @geoffspark1 5 Aug 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          maybe fyi thread -- fun read @JoumanaGebara

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