Black History Month
For Black History Month 2020 we have an article written by Trevor Ogden for Dereham Heritage Trust Newsletter a few months ago about a black woman whose skeleton was found in the 10th century cathedral cemetery at North Elmham, mid-Norfolk, in Peter Wade-Martin's excavations in the 1970s. What was her story, and how might she have come to Norfolk so long ago?
Acknowledgements.
I am very grateful to Peter Wade-Martins for telling me about these reports.The skeleton reports of the North Elmham cathedral cemetery excavations are in East AnglianArchaeology (EAA) No. 9, part 2,http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report9/. The Norwich castleexcavations are reported in EAA 28, http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report28/ . Fig 1 is basedon Wikiedia, Public Domain. Fig 2 is based on https://stockhead.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/West-Africa-map.jpg .
A PDF of the article can be downloaded here https://tinyurl.com/y8sjtpah
Trevor Ogden
I am very grateful to Peter Wade-Martins for telling me about these reports.The skeleton reports of the North Elmham cathedral cemetery excavations are in East AnglianArchaeology (EAA) No. 9, part 2,http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report9/. The Norwich castleexcavations are reported in EAA 28, http://eaareports.org.uk/publication/report28/ . Fig 1 is basedon Wikiedia, Public Domain. Fig 2 is based on https://stockhead.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/West-Africa-map.jpg .
A PDF of the article can be downloaded here https://tinyurl.com/y8sjtpah
Trevor Ogden
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