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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.

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    Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 Nov 2017

    Were there camels in Roman Britain? A brief note on the nature and context of the London camel remains — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/11/were-there-camels-in-roman-britain.html …pic.twitter.com/BXlMvE3cUH

    Distribution map of sites with Roman-era camel remain in Europe, showing an extensive spread from Iberia and Frances across to the Balkans and the Black Sea coast. Finds are mainly situated in the northern parts of the empire.
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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 Nov 2017

        Fwiw, the earliest textual evidence for camels in Britain comes from the early 12thC, when Henry I of England kept camels, a porcupine & other animals at Woodstock, Oxfordshire! https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uabPSAAACAAJ …pic.twitter.com/u0BiAPg2U9

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 8 Nov 2017

        Camels in early 12thC Scotland and Ireland too—sent by Scottish king to Muirchertach Ua Briain of Ireland: https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T100004/text066.html … s.a. 1105.7pic.twitter.com/Vhff87AbPc

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      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Nov 2017

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        Whether there were any camels in Britain between the Roman era & the 12thC is uncertain, but were definitely some in Europe then...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/736624442328092672 …

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        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Camels in early medieval western Europe: beasts of burden+tools of humiliation — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/camels-in-early-medieval-western-europe.html … pic.twitter.com/DT10rwW5a4
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      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Nov 2017

        For example, camels were present in late 10thC Poland & Germany, with Mieszko I of Poland giving one as a gift to Otto III in 980s:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Db9Z_BagLw8C&lpg=PA25&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false …

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      6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Nov 2017

        And camels were still used as pack animals into the sixth and seventh centuries in Gaul and Italy: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/camels-in-early-medieval-western-europe.html …pic.twitter.com/9htW2PoQ7a

        TEXT: By now King Guntram's leaders had learnt that Gundovald was ensconced on the opposite bank of the Garonne, with a huge force of enemy troops and having in his possession the entire treasure of Rigunth, which he had stolen... In their search for Gundovald they came upon camels & horses, still carrying huge loads of gold and silver, which his men had abandoned along the roads because the animals were exhausted...
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      7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Nov 2017

        A story about St Eligius and a pack-camel in 7th-century Provence is recorded in the Vita S. Eligii: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/camels-in-early-medieval-western-europe.html …pic.twitter.com/8Z07jT4qVQ

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      8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 10 Nov 2017

        Eyewitness account of some rather unfortunate camels used during the late 6thC Avar seige of Thessaloniki, Greece: http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/147879.pdf …pic.twitter.com/l8JHti8u33

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      9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Nov 2017

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green

        Worth noting, fair amount of textual refs to camels in Late Antiquity/early medieval period—see further https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/736624442328092672 …—but less arch evidence, though not totally absent…

        Dr Caitlin Green added,

        Dr Caitlin Green @caitlinrgreen
        Camels in early medieval western Europe: beasts of burden+tools of humiliation — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/camels-in-early-medieval-western-europe.html … pic.twitter.com/DT10rwW5a4
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      10. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Nov 2017

        A complete skeleton of a dromedary (aka the Arabian camel) from early Byzantine Constantinople, radiocarbon dated to AD 566–646: https://www.academia.edu/7459812/Preliminary_Report_on_the_Animal_Remains_Uncovered_at_Yenikapı_Metro_and_Marmaray_Excavations …pic.twitter.com/mmcQJTFdT5

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      11. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 14 Nov 2017

        Fwiw, other remains of Byzantine-era camels found scattered at same site+these have butchery marks, suggesting consumption of camels... Same true for 5thC Marseille.

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      12. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 15 Nov 2017

        Looking westwards, camel remains have been found in early medieval Lyon (8th/9thC) and on several sites in southern Spain e.g. https://www.academia.edu/32458324/The_signature_of_a_blacksmith_on_a_dromedary_bone_from_Islamic_Seville_Spain_ …pic.twitter.com/RWVfIMCITO

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      13. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 17 Nov 2017

        Fwiw, Otto I of Germany also had camels in the mid-10thC, along with lions, monkeys & ostriches, gifts from delegations of 'Saracens', Greeks & Romans :) https://www.academia.edu/8482748/Cosmopolitan_Claims_Islamicate_Spolia_during_the_Reign_of_King_Henry_II_1002_24_in_Medieval_History_Journal_15_2_2012_S._299-318 …pic.twitter.com/xhT9m6NtTt

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      14. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Nov 2017

        Camels in 9th- to early 20th-century Romania, including two finds from Byzantine-period sites (9th-12thC and 11thC): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adrian_Balasescu/publication/269167531_Camels_in_Romania/links/5489fde00cf2d1800d7aa6a2.pdf … (pic=camels in Dobruja, c.1900)pic.twitter.com/Njn9ln4Pd8

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      15. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Mar 4

        Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Yvonne Seale

        A rather nice medieval illustration of a camel :)https://twitter.com/yvonneseale/status/970279944692486145 …

        Dr Caitlin Green added,

        Yvonne Seale @yvonneseale
        A slightly smudged camel. From the ca. 1400 natural science encyclopaedia Historia Plantarum (On plants), made for Wenceslas IV of Germany. The text is derived from an 11thC Arab medical treatise, Taqwīm as-sihha bi al-Ashab al-Sitta. Now @Casanatense MS 459, f. 49r. pic.twitter.com/ShGbbkWg3B
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      16. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Sep 13

        A monkey riding a camel; MS M.1004 f. 160r, France, c.1420–25: http://ica.themorgan.org/manuscript/page/220/76924 …pic.twitter.com/cBLLbxXMxV

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Nov 2017

        A large fountain-spout in the form of a camel's head, preserved in the Hall of Animals in the Pio Clementino Museum, Vatican City: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camel%27s_Head.jpg …pic.twitter.com/fdHgRcCRpr

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Nov 2017

        Pack-camels in the Late Antique 'Tours Pentateuch', BnF MS NAL 2334, f. 30r: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53019392c/f69.item …pic.twitter.com/n7wgfNZnMT

        Three slightly grumpy looking pack-camels, with one having a rider perched on the load. The camels are riding rightwards and shown against a green background.
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      4. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Nov 2017

        The Adoration of the Magi featuring three rather happy camels, from a fourth-century AD sarcophagus at Rome: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adoration_magi_Pio_Christiano_Inv31459.jpg …pic.twitter.com/zA9AOYrJd0

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      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 9 Nov 2017

        For interest, a good discussion of a 4thC AD hybrid camel skeleton from the Viminacium amphitheatre, Serbia: https://www.academia.edu/5679594/A_camel_skeleton_from_the_Viminacium_amphitheatre …pic.twitter.com/v847UsI95G

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      6. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 10 Nov 2017

        A group of dromedaries depicted in the Late Antique (6thC) Vienna Genesis: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meister_der_Wiener_Genesis_002.jpg …pic.twitter.com/h5ErJkLQ6r

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      7. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 11 Nov 2017

        A Roman statuette of a dromedary in Budapest Museum of Fine Arts: http://www.livius.org/pictures/a/roman-art/dromedary/ …pic.twitter.com/GBu0lPIDjK

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      8. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 11 Nov 2017

        'Recent camel finds from Hungary', including Roman-era Bactrian camels:https://www.academia.edu/12065950/Recent_camel_finds_from_Hungary …

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      9. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen 18 Nov 2017

        Roman oil lamp featuring a camel, in Worms City Museum, Germany: http://www.livius.org/pictures/germany/worms-borbetomagus/oil-lamp-with-camel/ …pic.twitter.com/yhFgFkdwfL

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