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A man of possible African ancestry buried in Anglo-Scandinavian York — new post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2019/12/african-viking-york.html This post discusses burial SK 3379 from the graveyard of the former St
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The 'bluestones' and Bluestone Heath of eastern Lincolnshire: some thoughts on their significance and name — new post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2021/02/lincolnshire-bluestones.html So, why is this interesting? First of
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Icicles in the hedgerow on the Lincolnshire Marsh today :) More icicles in the hedges on the Lincolnshire Marsh.
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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 — http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/02/barbary-ape-wroxeter.html The Wroxeter find is one
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The 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Trewhiddle hoard, found 1774 in an old tin-working near St Austell, Cornwall: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1880-0410-1-3 The Fuller Brooch, a late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon silver and niello br
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Why 'Cousin Jack?' The origins of the nickname of the Cornish overseas — a new post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2021/01/cousin-jack-origins.html Cousin Jack Town, New Zealand, c. 1910: https://www.flickr.com/photos/natio
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Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England — a new brief post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2020/12/another-medieval-chinese-coin-from-england.html The map included in the above tweet & post is of the dist
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The History of Santa Claus & Father Christmas — just a bit of seasonal fun :) http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/index.htm St Nicholas of Myra—an assessment of the early stories of his life &
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As Christmas nears, here's a lovely late 15th-/early 16th-century portable nativity scene from a gold ring, found Sleaford, Lincs :) https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/642395 A 6th- or 7th-century Byzantine ring featuring
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A Middle Byzantine coin from Carbis Bay, Cornwall — a new brief post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2020/12/a-middle-byzantine-coin-from-carbis-bay.html It is not the only find of a Byzantine coin from a south-western
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This is a really interesting coin! It imitates a Sāmānid silver dirham of Nasr II (913–42); the cross is suggested to represent Olga of Kiev's conversion to Christianity in perhaps
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The importance of Lincolnshire in the fifth to seventh centuries AD — a new post by me :) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2020/12/the-importance-of-lincolnshire.html The post consists of a little light-hearted musing on the question
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