A high status, mixed-race 4thC Roman woman poss from the Med/N Africa + buried at York: http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/17041/1/M_Lewis_Bangle_Lady.pdf …pic.twitter.com/DQ8aYOJX2n
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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)
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 …
(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 …)
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
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 …
Also oaks found only in Wales also come from Balkans
Interesting, thanks! :) Do you have a link? :)
which would make a lot of sense! Our first high value export :)
Absolutely! And still a key export in the medieval period according to Sa'id al-Maghribi:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/740842272649039876 …
Some say Britain named after Brutus who colonised Southern England from Agean st time of Trojan Wars. Trinovantes-New Trojans
It's a good example of medieval 'etymology', but alas doesn't work :) Nice pic of Brutus here, btw! :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/737379788550230016 …
Have you read Geoffrey of Monmouth?
Diodorus of Sicily?
In Phone Ian.
That was a tweet about my 1950's headmaster saying Prydain meant Tin Island in Phonecian. Predictive text!
Interesting---idea def around then, but really starting to be properly adopted by place-name specialists now :)
There is also a Welsh/Berber connection idea. Atlantic root of Celtic types. Who on earth knows Welsh & Berber?
@Katherine_McDon I remember in E Nesbit, Story of the Amulet, a phonecian captain calling Britain "the tin islands". Loved it
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