All I'm seeing from this is that auxiliaries were stationed or fought close by, that's it. No idea if died naturally or in battle.
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Replying to @Jam_mil73 @wallaceme
This might work for some cems, but def not all—urban cems esp are used over long period, some high status, men+women+children present etc >
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> plus some evidence from countryside too etc, e.g. https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/735761635806060544 … ...
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Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreenReplying to @caitlinrgreen'Beachy Head Lady', 3rdC AD, of African descent+prob high status but grew up in SE England: http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art474162-beachy-head-lady-was-young-sub-saharan-roman-with-good-teeth-say-archaeologists … pic.twitter.com/TBRvesXH0n1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen @wallaceme
Honestly Caitlin, if several hundred brits were found in Africa would that make it ethnically diverse or a fragment of history?
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Replying to @Jam_mil73 @wallaceme
Well, there are graves of Britons in Roman-era N. Africa and Near East, but I think the evidence we have suggests a significant degree of >
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> diversity in at least urban populations and also beyond in Roman Britain, which is def worth noting given the evidence we have esp re: >
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @wallaceme
I'd say east med ethnically diverse, it's was a hotbed for everything. Britain on fringe not diverse. Just a colony. A wet one at that.
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Replying to @Jam_mil73 @wallaceme
True on weather: some of the letters home requesting socks show people underwhelmed by the weather here! But I guess my point here is that >
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> if you look at the major cities, have evidence of *considerable* diversity in the Roman-era urban populations, as well as on the Wall etc>
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> and where we have evidence from other areas we find it there too. E.g. even in 'post-Roman' south Wales (5–7thC) we have likely African >
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> presence in cemeteries, involving men, women and children, which is at the very least worth noting :)
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Replying to @caitlinrgreen @wallaceme
I understood that legionaries couldn't bring families? So traders or leaders remains?
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