After the demolition of the apsidal church at some point in the sixth century, the forum then seems to have been used as a graveyard for several centuries & was probably kept open with graves marked until the 10th century, when a small stone church was built around one of them…
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The outline of the 5th- to 6th-century apsidal church in the forum at Lincoln with the medieval cathedral behind.pic.twitter.com/a1IPli2Fyl
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Also worth noting that the Roman gates at either end of the east–west road that passed through the forum may well have seen activity/maintenance too e.g. not only was Roman west gate still standing in 11thC, but so too was its first floor chamber... (pic=http://www.wellandantiquemaps.co.uk/western-gate-roman-lindum-lincoln-gentlemans-magazine-c1836 …)pic.twitter.com/UG91UyWE3r
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Likewise, Lincoln's Roman Upper East Gate (which was demolished in 1763) was given along with its chambers to Bishop Alexander by the king as a residence in the mid-12th century… (pic=http://www.itsaboutlincoln.co.uk/lincolns-gates.html …)pic.twitter.com/5DVFf7qKFM
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For interest, a reconstruction of Lincoln's Upper South Gate in the 13th century, by David Vale: https://twitter.com/SocLincsHist/status/956188711116525570 … :)
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The Roman North Gate of the Upper City at Lincoln — unlike the others, it has not been buried by the castle or dismantled in the early modern period, but is instead still used by traffic to this day :)pic.twitter.com/1FiwW1fHSW
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Incidentally, the place-name Lincoln is itself very interesting—seems, unusually, to be derived directly from the British form of the town-name: British Latin *Lindocolonia > Late British *Lindgolun > Old English *Lindcolun etc :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/759698675996037120 …
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Also worth noting that that the seventh-century Anglo-Saxon kingdom-name Lindissi — which survives as the modern district-name Lindsey — derived from a British group-/territory-name *Lindēs that referred to the people of Lincoln... https://www.academia.edu/27372761/The_British_Kingdom_of_Lindsey …pic.twitter.com/M82284XugY
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Note, reanalysis of radiocarbon evidence from Lincoln indicates that the post-church burial stage of the site had almost certainly begun by c. AD 600 & that the apsidal church is not Anglo-Saxon as sometimes claimed, but rather 5th-/6th-century British… http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/12/fifth-to-sixth-century-british-church-lincoln.html …pic.twitter.com/xEryQkLasj
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A bone from the post-church graveyard at St Paul in Bail, Lincoln, in
@collectionusher; the forum seems to have been kept open and used as a burial ground from the late 6th century through until 10th century, when a stone church was built there.pic.twitter.com/oS4tCdAFPJ
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The sequence of pre-c. 600 AD wooden buildings at St Paul in the Bail, Lincoln, showing their relationship to the Roman forum: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/12/fifth-to-sixth-century-british-church-lincoln.html …pic.twitter.com/pDWJgiOuJS
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The Roman well in Lincoln's forum, located immediately to the east of the 5th- to 6th-century apsidal church & possibly used as its baptistery; the well continued in use until the 17thC.pic.twitter.com/cnDyXZaFkR
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Another view of the outline of the post-Roman church in the centre of Lincoln's forum. Note, reanalysis of radiocarbon evidence indicates that the apsidal church here is not Anglo-Saxon as sometimes claimed, but rather 5th-/6th-century British…pic.twitter.com/WijtNAsKUO
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A doorway and staircase from the surviving remnants of the 3rd-century AD Upper East Gate of Roman Lincoln; the East Gate was apparently used as a residence in the medieval period, being given to the Bishop of Lincoln in 1130–3 by Henry I.pic.twitter.com/siJmT7iSX4
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