Medieval black Briton foundPosted in Anthropology, History, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2011-10-10 02:06Z by Steven |
The Times of London
2010-05-02
Gillian Passmore
A SKELETON uncovered in the ruins of a friary is the earliest physical evidence of a black person living in Britain in medieval times.
The remains of a man, found in the friary in Ipswich, Suffolk, which was destroyed by Henry VIII, have been dated to the 13th century.
It is the first solid indication that there were black people in Britain in the 1,000-year period between the departure of the Romans, who had African slaves, and the beginnings of the age of discovery in the 15th century…
…He predates by 150 years the three black people previously known to have lived in Britain. They were identified from tax records…
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