Also relevant when thinking about the context of the continued 'post-Roman' activity in the forum at Lincoln:https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/741901272899522560 …
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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
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
What? Lindēs, Lindēsh? The land of the Lin? Dēsh means land or country in Sanskrit
Lindes comes from Latin Lindenses, via expected post-Roman sound changes; subsequently nd > nn and e > ui led to 9thC form Linnuis in Old Welsh (cf. Powys) :)
Thanks! But I do wish it was Lin Desh!
The coast line is much different from today.
Indeed; seen significant changes since the early medieval era :)
Lincoln's function would have been different, the economy and political make different as well. No Grimsby or Great Yarmouth either.
Is it possible that behind the power of Lindissi we find something like what Bernard S. Bachrach (1972) has noted of the Oreleanais: "Gallo-Roman magnates and their adherents, former Roman soldiers and their descendants who had maintained their military organization"?
So not only did the Roman cities not become abandoned but they became the foci of new power based on those region's local elites and a return to pre-Roman tribal identities
I always wonder why English appears to have no words borrowed from Welsh
It's interesting to see where the River Trent fits in and before Sir Cornelius Vermuyden done his magic throughout the Isle of Axholme.
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