A North African Barbary ape in fifth- to sixth-century Britain? A short note on the significance and context of the Wroxeter macaque remains — new post :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/02/barbary-ape-wroxeter.html …pic.twitter.com/m3Og37obMY
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There are also medieval finds of Barbary ape remains from Lower Saxony, London and Southampton—the latter from the property of the wealthy 13th-century merchant Richard of Southwick (Pic=BL Additional 18851, f. 270r, 15thC, Southern Netherlands)pic.twitter.com/mGEDtEKJEW
Of course, the 5th/6thC Wroxeter find of a Barbary ape is part of a wider picture of Mediterranean imports in 5th- to 6th-century Britain & Ireland, e.g. http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/03/a-very-long-way-from-home.html … & http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/01/st-ia-of-st-ives-byzantine-saint.html …pic.twitter.com/aSR4hw2aXZ
A wider look at the 6th-century Byzantine mosaic of a Barbary ape from the Great Palace of Constantinople: http://helenmilesmosaics.org/mosaic-sites/great-palace-mosaic-museum/ …pic.twitter.com/ui1Zi1Cyco
With regard to the distribution of Barbary macaque remains in Europe, it's worth comparing with that of camel remains—notably higher proportion from Britain & Ireland, for example:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/928363213015658498 …
A late 5th- to mid-7th-century St Menas ampulla from Egypt found at Meols on the Wirral Peninsula, a possible import site for the 5th-/6th-century Barbary ape from Wroxeter: https://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/GCMS/RMS-2006-04_S._Bangert,_Menas_ampullae,_a_case_study_of_long-distance_contacts.pdf …pic.twitter.com/cUHShJh7UR
Alternatively, the North African Barbary ape found in 5th-/6th-century Wroxeter may have arrived via the Severn Estuary; worth noting that post-Roman imports of African Red Slip Ware are known from both sides of the estuary (pic=ARSW dish in @Cornwall_Museum).pic.twitter.com/N54PNMWxcj
The remains of the 'Old Work', part of the baths basilica complex at Viroconium Cornoviorum (Wroxeter); this surviving 7 metre high wall and arch is the largest piece of free-standing Roman wall in Britain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_ruins_at_Wroxeter_(7055).jpg …pic.twitter.com/a7lPZmarz3
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