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
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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
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 …
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
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
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
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 …
A nice overview by Hella Eckardt---'Seeing Black: Africans in Roman Britain' (2014): https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dIgbBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA63&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/ZLMQ487s6D
Some of the African sites that people came to Roman Britain from, via https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dIgbBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA63&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/0jdNzXVcdS
Interestingly, not simply one-way traffic---evidence for some Britons+British artefacts in Roman-era N Africa too:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/726122772309626880 …
any link to forensic science used to determine skeleton was sub Sahara African
Not yet published, but prob via skull=well estab method eg http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.21104/abstract …, http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/17041/1/M_Lewis_Bangle_Lady.pdf …,https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=Gjmo2RyEsh0 …
@Anothergreen Interesting - would like to know more about what indicates she's African.
of course Black Africans were here long before the Anglo Saxons. Never heard of the Roman Empire? #racism #revisionism
@wood5y Are the Police looking into it?
this said I do not know if genetics can pin point area of origin
Saying Africannot enough informative as saying American or Asian woman vague North African or Sub -Saharan better
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