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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 14 Jul 2017

      The Nebra sky disk of c.1600 BC; found nr Nebra, Germany—made using Cornish tin & gold https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229484698_Tin_Isotopy-A_New_Method_for_Solving_Old_Questions … (pic=https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1600_Himmelsscheibe_von_Nebra_sky_disk_anagoria.jpg …)pic.twitter.com/wEVy25GZJ4

      19 replies 425 retweets 897 likes
      Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Jul 2017

      A Bronze Age antler pick of c.2000 BC, found 40 ft down in tin bed nr Truro, Cornwall :) Now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/NJNTNUNFDO

      10:48 AM - 14 Jul 2017
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      5 replies 45 retweets 120 likes
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        2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A tin ring made from pure Cornish tin, dated c.950-700 BC & found at Vårdinge, Sweden... https://www.academia.edu/10144668/Moving_metals_II_provenancing_Scandinavian_Bronze_Age_artefacts_by_lead_isotope_and_elemental_analyses …pic.twitter.com/1MAP4ADY6t

          1 reply 34 retweets 88 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Bronze Age maritime trade—suggested that "ports in the British Isles acted as transit centres" for metals incl tin: https://www.academia.edu/10144668/Moving_metals_II_provenancing_Scandinavian_Bronze_Age_artefacts_by_lead_isotope_and_elemental_analyses …pic.twitter.com/9su03nJ8q1

          5 replies 66 retweets 113 likes
        4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A 5th-2ndC BC Mediterranean anchor found at Plymouth, nr a candidate for the 4thC BC British tin-trading site Ictis: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/08/a-mediterranean-anchor.html …pic.twitter.com/QmRDleZ2jn

          3 replies 32 retweets 64 likes
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Interestingly, recently argued by both Broderick & Coates that the name Britain may be Punic and mean 'tin land': http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/12/punic-names-britain.html?m=1 …pic.twitter.com/DI7Yn4ySOu

          12 replies 90 retweets 140 likes
        6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 15 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Fwiw, Punic & early Numidian coins have been found in SW Britain & along the south coast: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/06/the-distribution-of-numidian-coins.html … & http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html …pic.twitter.com/p65y8CnBPF

          1 reply 21 retweets 50 likes
        7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 15 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A bronze Roman ring dug up by tinners in the streamworks at Polmassick, St Ewe, near Mevagissey, Cornwall, in 1787. Now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/R0Iv5YrmfV

          2 replies 15 retweets 47 likes
        8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 15 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Tin trade generally thought to lie behind early Byzantine imports to SW Britain incl Tintagel (map=L5/E6thC PRSW distribution, E.Campbell)pic.twitter.com/rx9zsQN25I

          Distribution map of Phocaean Red Slip Ware in the western Mediterranean and Britain.
          1 reply 14 retweets 44 likes
        9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 15 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen @littlerobbergrl

          A fragment of a Byzantine wine amphora from Greece, found at the important 5th–6thC site of Tintagel, Cornwall; poss linked to tin trade?pic.twitter.com/ey1sx4BVkD

          A red amphora fragment, with the neck and one handle surviving.
          2 replies 5 retweets 22 likes
        10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 15 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen @littlerobbergrl

          A probably 8th–9thC AD oak shovel from the tin streamworks at Boscarne, Bodmin (Cornwall); now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/a8Cy7IU5tn

          2 replies 7 retweets 17 likes
        11. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 15 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          The 9thC Anglo-Saxon Trewhiddle hoard, found over 5m below ground in a tin mine near St Austell, Cornwall, in 1774: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=89030&partId=1&place=31554&plaA=31554-3-1&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/kDksV0J4HY

          1 reply 50 retweets 126 likes
        12. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 15 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Abu'l-Fida in the early 14thC on the medieval export of tin from England to Alexandria (based on the 13thC work of Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi).pic.twitter.com/Y7WKpJZlfE

          Description of the transport of tin from England to Alexandria via the Garonne river and Narbonne. Translated by Dunlop, 1957.
          4 replies 23 retweets 58 likes
        13. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 24 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A medieval tin figurine w/ 4 Hebrew characters inscribed on it—poss 13thC & originally had a crown, now lost; found on Bodmin Moor in 1853.pic.twitter.com/Iymds9QbVT

          6 replies 29 retweets 87 likes
        14. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 25 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A medieval oak shovel found in the 19thC in a tin streamworks below Temple bridge, Bodmin Moor (Cornwall).pic.twitter.com/HP9M711VPJ

          3 replies 19 retweets 34 likes
        15. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 31 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          Tinners' seal, of the form on Edward I's 1305 charter to the tinners—Latin text reads 'The seal of the community of tinners of Cornwall'.pic.twitter.com/6iQvbecm36

          2 replies 49 retweets 83 likes
        16. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Mar 17
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          The St Mawes tin ingot from Cornwall, found in 1812 and weighing 72 kg; it is now in @Cornwall_Museum and is thought to probably date from the later medieval period.pic.twitter.com/e1szphsXI0

          1 reply 11 retweets 27 likes
        17. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Mar 17
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A water-worn gold nugget, the largest known from Cornwall (56mm or 2.2 inches long); found 1808 in Carnon Valley tin stream works and now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/vitB6NOuWv

          2 replies 30 retweets 76 likes
        18. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jul 6
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A possibly 7th-century tin ingot with a cross mark from Praa Sands, Cornwall; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/KsSiwxuUVU

          2 replies 6 retweets 27 likes
        19. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jul 15
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen

          A 3rd-/4th-century AD tin ingot from Carnanton, Cornwall; it weighs around 40 pounds and was found in 1819.pic.twitter.com/JZ1I2ZSuDb

          0 replies 8 retweets 17 likes
        20. End of conversation
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        2. Pythika‏ @Pythika 14 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Cornwall_Museum

          Oh! Wow!

          1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
        3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Jul 2017
          Replying to @Pythika @QueensClassics @Cornwall_Museum

          Isn't it wonderful! :)

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        4. Pythika‏ @Pythika 14 Jul 2017
          Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Cornwall_Museum

          So very smooth and touchable! And practical - one can really imagine what it would feel like to pick it up and hack away.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Jul 2017
          Replying to @Pythika @QueensClassics @Cornwall_Museum

          Yes, know what you mean! :)

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. End of conversation

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