NB isotopes only show 1st gen immigrants, but Roman Britain also incl ppl of African descent who grew up here too eghttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/735761635806060544 …
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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 …
(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? :)
Thanks for all of this, I'll have a good read! :)
The evidence for African migrants in Bronze Age–Medieval Britain — a storified twitter thread :) https://storify.com/caitlinrgreen/african-migrants-medieval-britain …
For interest, a short article on the late medieval notion that pre-Conquest English+Vikings were Muslims/Saracens... http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=jlo …
9thC Danes depicted as Muslims/Saracens & attacking St Edmund, see http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/175330709X449116 … (http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_2278_f061r …)pic.twitter.com/osSwtoCInh
Of course, worth noting that there is some potential evidence for Viking converts to Islam: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wuN-AgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA543&pg=PA543#v=onepage&q&f=true …pic.twitter.com/cHkVVTutDr
At the court of the 9thC Danish king, w/ Danes again depicted as Muslims/Saracens (15thC): http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_2278_f047r …pic.twitter.com/ogJhuy5kvG
thank you so much for these threads – they're real gems to counter You-Know-What these days.
Very kind of you to say, thank you! :)
it's been fascinating thank you for sharing so much. 
Glad you enjoyed! :)
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