Mahumet's duel was w/ John de Merleberge=Marlborough, Wiltshire; fwiw, a Theobald, son of Mahumet, is also recorded from E13thC Hampshire...
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
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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
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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
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Interestingly, not simply one-way traffic---evidence for some Britons+British artefacts in Roman-era N Africa too:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/726122772309626880 …
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