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Dr Caitlin Green
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Dr Caitlin Green

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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 Jan 31

    Here's an odd find: a Chinese bronze hu supposedly found in Canterbury during the 19thC...Accepted as a potential Roman-era import found in a Roman grave by David Whitehouse (http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-769-1/dissemination/pdf/vol16/16_063_078.pdf …), but also considered implausible & a fake by others (http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=262505&partId=1 …)...pic.twitter.com/pjbWOHVawp

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      2. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jan 31

        Fwiw, the claimed findspot is the site of a Roman cemetery & another Chinese hu is said to have been found in Rome, whilst a Chinese bronze gu is reported to have been found in a Roman-era shipwreck near Ostia in 1941...

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jan 31

        The Chinese bronze found in Rome, considered by Vessberg to be a genuine Roman-era import.pic.twitter.com/gGqpvsuZ8b

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      2. Marty of the Rye‏ @Marty62R Jan 31
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Green Roman glass cup unearthed from an Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 AD) tomb of Guangxi many items of wares have been found so it would not be so far fetched to surmise that commercial exchange was quite common.pic.twitter.com/NCLNhYecM6

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jan 31
        Replying to @Marty62R

        Indeed, no need to think that only silk came westwards! Thanks for this :)

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      2. Anisminic‏ @Anisminic Jan 31
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Why would someone make it up, though? If the object itself is genuine, why say it was found somewhere it wasn't?

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jan 31
        Replying to @Anisminic

        The person donating it was a friend of Charles Dawson of Piltdown fame, so fraud is not impossible. Though would still be most odd!

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      4. Katie Hobbs‏ @KatieAliceHobbs Jan 31
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Anisminic

        Very interesting, tho if it's the same Henry Willett then he was a prolific collector and founder of significant part of @BrightonMuseums collections, specifically ceramics, so wouldn't naturally see him as a fraudster, unless he and Dawson had some kind of bet going on!

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      5. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Feb 1
        Replying to @KatieAliceHobbs @Anisminic @BrightonMuseums

        Thank you for this! He & his finds are damned by association here, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LaUnOztbkP4C&lpg=PA95&pg=PA95#v=onepage&q&f=false … (and on previous page), but I do wonder how fair this is and the hu would seem a very odd thing to fake...(Plus there definitely were Roman burials found in the findspot area in the 19thC!)

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      6. Katie Hobbs‏ @KatieAliceHobbs Feb 1
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen @Anisminic @BrightonMuseums

        Yes, it seems bit mean to damn by association plus I'm now v. curious about the motivations behind collecting and donating by both Willet & Dawson. I'm interested to know more of their relationship- how close was their connection? It would seem odd to try to fake the Hu ...

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      7. Katie Hobbs‏ @KatieAliceHobbs Feb 1
        Replying to @KatieAliceHobbs @caitlinrgreen and

        Plus I'm often surrounded by less than complete museum documentation, I always wonder how accurate is the original documentation. It's so subject to human error; a location or a donor story interpreted and written down inaccurately at time of donation can become the only source.

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      2. Craig Clunas 柯律格‏ @CraigClunas Jan 31
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Always intriguing. Tangentially, in Robert Graves, 'I, Claudius' the protagonist gives his grandmother Livia a Chinese #bronze as a birthday present; did Graves get the idea from this example?

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jan 31
        Replying to @CraigClunas

        Oh, maybe! Or the one found in Rome... Certainly seems possible :)

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      2. Andrew West‏ @BabelStone Jan 31
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Donated by Henry Willett who was a friend and collaborator of Charles Dawson, the infamous Piltdown hoaxer (Willet also donated Dawson's petrified "toad in the hole" to Brighton Museum).

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jan 31
        Replying to @BabelStone

        Yes, therein lies the problem and the reason for scepticism! Still, most curious, and am currently reading of a probably genuine example dug up in Rome a few decades later, as well as of a related vessel found on a Roman-era shipwreck near Ostia...?!

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      2. Dr Mike Nitabach‏ @mnitabach Jan 31
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        So it remains inconclusive?

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      3. Dr Caitlin Green‏ @caitlinrgreen Jan 31
        Replying to @mnitabach

        Well, there's two related vessels from Italy, one from Rome that's considered a genuine Roman-era import, and one from a Roman shipwreck, plus it would be a very odd thing to fake... BUT the source of the donation was friends with a faudster :-/ So....!?

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      4. Dr Mike Nitabach‏ @mnitabach Jan 31
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        Interesting. Thanks for further details!

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      1. Marty of the Rye‏ @Marty62R Jan 31
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        The Sampul Tapestry 山普拉 3rd century BCE to the 4th century CE) and is 48 cm wide and 230 cm long. depicting a Greek soldier and centaur.pic.twitter.com/X7S6K925h6

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      1. George Rick‏ @GeorgeRick1 Jan 31
        Replying to @caitlinrgreen

        A fake? That seems to be what you call something that doesn't fit your established ideas!

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