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/ …
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Fwiw, Roman York has multiple ppl prob from N Africa, but even more ppl who are of 'black'/'mixed' ancestry (11–51%) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html …
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A 10th–3rdC BC cem on Isle of Thanet, Kent, w/ multiple ppl who prob grew up in N Africa: http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/kent/ramsgate/cliffs_end …pic.twitter.com/OdbTH1bzX6
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See further http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html … on this cem; 2 ppl from here (9thC + 3rdC BC) have v v high results, consistent w/ origin in Nile Valley
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Poss that African ppl present as Thanet="transit centre" for trade between Med+Scandinavia: https://www.academia.edu/12497151/Rock_art_and_Metal_Trade …pic.twitter.com/shqiTc0pGf
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Other poss evidence for pre-Roman contact between N. Africa/Med+Britain incl anchors & 4th-3rdC BC harbour at Poole:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/637703618725040128 …
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Poole port c.300BC: 2 piers, 8m wide, paved stone surface+best parallels=Punic/Mediterranean..?(via
@awhitingdorset)pic.twitter.com/fhAKAibwnv
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Also noteworthy is recent suggestion that number of British coastal names (incl Thanet!) may be of Punic origin! :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/590444130351902720 …
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So, for example, the Isle of Thanet, Kent, may well=Punic 'Y TNT, 'Isle (of) Tanit', the Carthaginian goddess...pic.twitter.com/oGwLM0D7Os
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Indeed, recently argued by Broderick (supported by Richard Coates) that even name Britain may be Punic or similar, meaning 'island of tin'!
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And that is the end of this thread :) Incidentally, refs for name Britain as Punic=Beiträge zur Namenforschung, 44 (2009)+Nomina, 35 (2012)
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In case it's of use to anyone, I've tried to draw together the strands of this thread into a 'storify' here :) https://storify.com/caitlinrgreen/african-migrants-medieval-britain …
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(btw, & just for fun, worth noting again that famed 5th/6thC British writer Gildas has a poss intriguing name..! ;) https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/647381921346002944 …)
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A v unusual 5thC stone from N Wales; CISP compares Barrectus w/ N.African (Punic) name Baric http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/mwrog_1.html …pic.twitter.com/HHmURRtonf
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Re: any such poss N.African links, worth noting again the archaeological evidence for trade/movement at that time:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/744521734582304768 …
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