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
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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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
The Wroxeter find is one of probably three European archaeological finds of Barbary apes from Late Antiquity, the others coming from NE Spain and Constantinople. For more on post-Roman Wroxeter, see http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/eh_monographs_2014/contents.cfm?mono=1089053 …pic.twitter.com/giByz1JYMY
Majority of finds of Barbary apes are of Roman/Late Antique date; some were military mascots, whilst others clearly well-loved companion animals, e.g. that buried in the L3rdC at Poitiers next to its owner in a coffin & inside a large funerary enclosure: http://journals.openedition.org/archeopages/296 pic.twitter.com/Dr6jrXWSgE
A 5th-/6th-century Barbary ape buried at Llívia, Spain, with decorated metallic pieces & bronze military belts typical of the Late Roman period—a possible military pet/mascot? https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dfaZAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA703&pg=PA703#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/ycR4JYk7GN
Other finds from Roman military contexts incl a Barbary ape from Catterick, N.Yorkshire; a macaque burial from a military necropolis in Meurthe-et-Moselle, N.France; & a Barbary ape from the Roman fort of Rainau-Buch, Germany (pic=south gate of the fort: http://www.livius.org/articles/place/rainau-buch/ …)pic.twitter.com/pF7UpKlrSa
Skull of a Barbary ape from N. Africa, possibly deposited c.250–100 BC & found at Navan Fort, Northern Ireland: http://irisharchaeology.ie/2014/05/a-barbary-ape-skull-from-navan-fort-co-armagh/ …pic.twitter.com/TRbPdAg6ck
The skeleton of a 14th-century North African monkey (Macaca sylvanus) found at Carrickfergus, N. Ireland: http://www.archeo.ru/izdaniya-1/vagnejshije-izdanija/pdf/U_istokov_2007.pdf …pic.twitter.com/aUqgt8qvjx
Whilst on my first ever dig at Bristol castle, archaeologists who had worked on previous digs there told me about a monkey skeleton being found down the well. Never managed to find any evidence in reports for this though.
Oh! Most intriguing — I came across no mentions of it when looking through the literature, but that could just mean the relevant report hasn't yet been published? (I know there's Lincolnshire Anglo-Saxon cemetery reports still awaiting publication from the 50s/60s...)
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