Westernmost Roman inscription on map found 250km west of Ireland, 2ndC AD greyware pot dredged up on Porcupine Bankhttps://twitter.com/carolemadge/status/702078933752217600 …
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Following Hadrian 🧔🏻
Westernmost Roman inscription on map found 250km west of Ireland, 2ndC AD greyware pot dredged up on Porcupine Bankhttps://twitter.com/carolemadge/status/702078933752217600 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Pot inscribed with C PISCI FAGI & a graffito of an otter; further details and image here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/297059 pic.twitter.com/2Da2QLQPhM
More on this intriguing find from Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 1947, 35-82, via http://pmnhs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/051-PNV6N1MAY95.pdf …pic.twitter.com/r5SdCsRFNx
Barry Cunliffe on the Porcupine Bank find & possible explanations for why it was found there https://web.archive.org/web/20131105230706/http://www.archaeologyuk.org/ba/ba63/feat2.shtml …pic.twitter.com/KAFTKQH1rC
Another out-of-place find: 2ndC BC Ptolemaic statue, 48lbs, found 9ft down in Middlesex,1929 http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=120309&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/nfKdKKWRa6
A Late Period Egyptian figurine of an Apis bull, found St Just, Cornwall, in 1832; now in @Cornwall_Museumpic.twitter.com/3nS1XZIZxD
For interest, a 7thC BC seal w/ Phoenician inscription, found 19thC at Dundrum, N. Ireland: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1553740&partId=1&place=42363&matcult=15652&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/xmwYEjvqVo
Skull of a Barbary ape from N. Africa, poss deposited 250–100 BC & found Navan Fort, Ireland http://irisharchaeology.ie/2014/05/a-barbary-ape-skull-from-navan-fort-co-armagh/ …pic.twitter.com/JLVL0g4okR
Hmmmm. Thoughts as to origin, Caitlin? Scratching my head on this one. Matt
I think there's more movement in this era than ppl give credit for :) e.g. N Africans in Kent, Proto-Semitic island-names etc...
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
So, potentially arrived via this? E.g., note coastal distribution of 2ndC BC Numidian coins:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/607284327978811392 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Sure. You've really opened my eyes in this area. But I'm puzzled as to the benefits of bringing apes along for the ride.
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