A North African Barbary ape in fifth- to sixth-century Britain? A short note on the significance and context of the Wroxeter macaque remains — http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/02/barbary-ape-wroxeter.html

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

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