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
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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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
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
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
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
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 probably 8th–9thC AD oak shovel from the tin streamworks at Boscarne, Bodmin (Cornwall); now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/a8Cy7IU5tn
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
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
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
English? Jewish? Anglo-Jewish? What were the characters?
Several theories, all speculative I fear. Characters are reported as Nun, Resh, Shin, & Mem.
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