Of course, Lincoln's 5th-/6th-century church not only evidence for continuing Romano-British Christianity in eastern Britain e.g. in c. 600, Pope Gregory sent St Augustine the relics of Sixtus II to replace those of an unknown British St Sixtus whose cult he encountered...
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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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Alexander the Magnificent, Bishop of Lincoln, had Banbury Castle built and owned large swathes of land around here. He must have been filthy rich!
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