Post mentions 3 poss burials of African women in 9th-11thC England, incl N. Elmham burial discussed here: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1311/1/1311.pdf pp.224-6
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Another African woman, aged 18-24, was found at Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 2013—radiocarbon dated to AD 896–1025:http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/10688142.Schoolboys_amazed_that_skeleton_is_1_000_year_old_African_woman/ …
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Hadrian, the L7-E8thC Abbot of St Augustine's,Canterbury, was 'a man of African race' (Bede) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=egy-k7LV-e4C&lpg=PA170&pg=PA170#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/ze0xufAot7
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
In this context, worth noting that multiple ppl buried at 7th-9thC Bamburgh may well have African origin too... Seehttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/657981747154522112 …
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Similarly, 2 people in the 7thC monastic cemetery at Ely may well have grown up in N Africa http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6135608&fileId=S0003581509990102 …pic.twitter.com/xWbw7AZUOm
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Isotope evidence for poss movement between South Wales & Byzantine N. Africa in the 5th-7thC http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030544031300023X …pic.twitter.com/jmcswBsf2Q
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A rim sherd from a bowl made in North Africa (ARSW) c.525-550 & found at Iona, Scotland: http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-103-242-C …pic.twitter.com/9agRTa51NF
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How do the experts determine date and location of manufacture?
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Probably more to the bits of broken pot that Granny put in the bottom of her flower pots than met the eye
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