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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.

Cornwall/Lincolnshire
caitlingreen.org
Joined August 2014

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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      2 replies 10 retweets 11 likes
    2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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

      3 replies 26 retweets 42 likes
    3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

      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 …

      Dr Caitlin Green added,

      Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
      A Mediterranean anchor of the 5th-2ndC BC found off the coast of Britain---new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/08/a-mediterranean-anchor.html … pic.twitter.com/0zMzLMLrwN
      2 replies 19 retweets 24 likes
    4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Poole port c.300BC: 2 piers, 8m wide, paved stone surface+best parallels=Punic/Mediterranean..?(via @awhitingdorset)pic.twitter.com/fhAKAibwnv

      4 replies 24 retweets 34 likes
    5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 21 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

      Also noteworthy is recent suggestion that number of British coastal names (incl Thanet!) may be of Punic origin! :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/590444130351902720 …

      Dr Caitlin Green added,

      Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
      Thanet, Tanit & the Phoenicians: Names, Archaeology & Pre-Roman Trading Settlements in Kent? http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html … pic.twitter.com/Npezp0bx9f
      1 reply 28 retweets 25 likes
    6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      So, for example, the Isle of Thanet, Kent, may well=Punic 'Y TNT, 'Isle (of) Tanit', the Carthaginian goddess...pic.twitter.com/oGwLM0D7Os

      1 reply 22 retweets 27 likes
    7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      Indeed, recently argued by Broderick (supported by Richard Coates) that even name Britain may be Punic or similar, meaning 'island of tin'!

      11 replies 14 retweets 24 likes
    8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 22 Jun 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      And that is the end of this thread :) Incidentally, refs for name Britain as Punic=Beiträge zur Namenforschung, 44 (2009)+Nomina, 35 (2012)

      4 replies 8 retweets 18 likes
    9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Jul 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      The evidence for African migrants in Bronze Age–Medieval Britain — a storified twitter thread :) https://storify.com/caitlinrgreen/african-migrants-medieval-britain …

      18 replies 316 retweets 326 likes
    10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jul 2016
      Replying to @caitlinrgreen

      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 …

      4 replies 45 retweets 59 likes
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jul 2016

      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

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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Jul 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          8 replies 71 retweets 111 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Jul 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          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

          3 replies 41 retweets 40 likes
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        2. M. Ballan‏ @Ballandalus 23 Jul 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Awesome headgear :)

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Jul 2016
          Replying to @Ballandalus

          Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

          Oh, definitely! Of course, they save their best hats for court.... ;)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/754612140556845056 …

          Dr Caitlin Green added,

          Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen
          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
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        2. Steffen Hope‏ @HopeSteffen 21 Aug 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          I love this conflation. Still trying to figure out a way to use it in an academic paper.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 23 Aug 2016
          Replying to @HopeSteffen

          Yes, same, but difficult one! Perhaps on censer/Birka ring or similar, as illustration?! ;)

          0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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        2. Fitzjimi‏ @fitzjimi 20 Nov 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Interesting depiction of the Danes?

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 20 Nov 2016
          Replying to @fitzjimi

          Very much so! :)

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 16 Jul 2016
          Replying to @noir_sebastian

          Hmm... that'd need some research! Lots to choose from.... :(

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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        1. Ron‏ @Tweets2CV 16 Jul 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Poor St Edmund! All he wanted to do was to start a Town in Suffolk!

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        1. Spode‏ @Sluttymaster 17 Apr 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A strange merging of figures of hate, Danes with Saracens....perhaps the artist had no more information and thought that they were the same

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        1. Reggie Unthank‏ @ReggieUnthank 17 Apr 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Fascinating connection between Danes and Vikings

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        1. Andrew Ziminski‏ @natchjourneyman 31 Mar 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          For comparison - North porch Wells Cathedralpic.twitter.com/gYQUQSqL5w

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        1. George Rick‏ @GeorgeRick1 8 Oct 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Judging from his expression, he seems rather nonplussed. Maybe the arrows had suction cup tips?

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        1. pete hall‏ @peterctid1965 17 Sep 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Another depiction of an archer looking far more 'renaissance ' than medieval!

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