For more on the regional context of the 5th-/6th-century apsidal church in the forum at Lincoln, see 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Very interesting, but what does it mean?
The Roman colonia (city, originally settlement for retired soldiers) by the pool (i.e. the Brayford pool, or rather its larger Roman-era antecedent) :)
Lovely place to visit
Agreed! :)
I am off to Wells next month, should be good :-)
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