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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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! :)
never thought of it before but, yes, Gildas doesn't look a Latinised version of British, but doesn't look British either!
Exactly! And given 4th-7thC evidence for North African contacts/migration (Winchester, S Wales etc), is intriguing....! ;) ;)
it makes sense. Given how cosmopolitan becoming "Romanised" must have made us, being all out on the edge & intriguing :)
by the way we pronounce jee-ldas and not gee-ldas in French https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gildas see French Brittanic
if we really dig deep here it will be RA and T Hyardyall ;-0) What was in Edward 3 Library (?!)
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