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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
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    1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 2 Dec 2016

      This is also fascinating: 'Bitumen from Middle East discovered in 7th century buried ship in UK' (=Sutton Hoo) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0166276 …pic.twitter.com/vGrj3GyOCD

      Images of the bitumen.
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      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 2 Dec 2016

      Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

      Of course, given some of the coverage, worth remembering that this is not the only evidence for such links then e.g.https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/725676613774532608 …

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      Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
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      A cowrie shell from the Red Sea/Indian Ocean, found in a 7thC grave at Aldeburgh, Suffolk: http://adlhs.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/3/1/14312796/2013_barbers_point_final_report.pdf … pic.twitter.com/hafIJ0fSLt
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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 2 Dec 2016
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          Similarly of interest are ivory rings from bags found in 5th-7thC England, which seem to be made from elephant ivoryhttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/729321640694255616 …

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          Distribution of 112 elephant ivory rings from 5th-7thC England via https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol32/32_063_096.pdf … & http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/collections/search-results/display.php?irn=22025 … pic.twitter.com/vHIG2Ursnz
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        1. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 2 Dec 2016
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          The 6thC Bromeswell Bucket, made E. Med (possibly Antioch) w/ hunting scene+Greek inscription, found nr Sutton Hoo: http://www.wessexcam.com/publicgallery.php?id=146 …pic.twitter.com/K9yV6QDxPq

          Image of the bucket, showing a frieze of hunting scenes punched into the bronze.
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        2. oldeuropeanculture‏ @serbiaireland 2 Dec 2016
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Sea and land trading routes from Mediterranean to Baltic (Amber routes) were in use thousands of years earler

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        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 2 Dec 2016
          Replying to @serbiaireland

          Agreed! Mesopotamian blue glass beads in Bronze Age Danish graves and amber in Syrian tombs of similar antiquity!

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        1. oldeuropeanculture‏ @serbiaireland 2 Dec 2016
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          They continued to be used for trading in metals. They weren't just abandoned when Rome collapsed. Don't understand surprise?

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        1. T S P‏ @morangles 2 Dec 2016
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          Cowry shells were a thing 1 finds in women graves all over Europe but what was exact significance #justafashion or more to it

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