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 …
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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
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 …
Logical NorthAfriacns Numides get into the Legions Older&wiser return home for retirement (&probably the weather)
Yes, mixture of this + some British units recorded in N Africa & some units from N Africa in Britain + then in Africa again etc!
A rim sherd from a bowl made in North Africa (ARSW) c.525-550 & found at Iona, Scotland: http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-103-242-C …pic.twitter.com/9agRTa51NF
How do the experts determine date and location of manufacture?
A mix of pot fabric and design :)
Probably more to the bits of broken pot that Granny put in the bottom of her flower pots than met the eye
Well, possibly...!
Earthenware was never so interesting!
Last month, at the British Museum, we were allowed to handle Roman silver coins. Found in Lincolnshire, minted in Aleppo.
Fabulous! Where were the coins from in Lincs? :)
I don't remember where. I thought it amazing that the UK and Syria were part of a single currency system, 1800 years ago.
Absolutely---it's utterly fascinating! :)
friend of mine, with Wales-history in her ancestry, was hoping for more exotic-DNA, perhaps Indian.about to have DNA tested #Byzantium
It's an interesting idea, but she should prepare for it not being! We apparently retain very little DNA from most of our more distant >
Was 7thc 22 generations ago? seems so close! will have to study this some more...
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