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
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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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
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 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
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 …
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
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
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
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,
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
Wouldn't camels as beasts of burden be quite common in that part of the world?
Probably, but they are rather scarce in the archaeological record, often only single finds. I mapped byzantine camels for my 2010 book (that Yenikapi beauty was unpublished back then).
Oh, nice map :) @garthygarthy : book is here https://www.academia.edu/347552/Henriette_Kroll_Tiere_im_Byzantinischen_Reich._Archäozoologische_Forschungen_im_Überblick._Monographien_des_Römisch-Germanischen_Zentralmuseums_87_Mainz_2010_ … Camels etc mapped at fig. 68 (p.169) w/ nice discussion in German on pp. 172–4 :)
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