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Caitlin Green
Personal blog · caitlingreen.orghistoryscience
Caitlin Green's personal blog at caitlingreen.org covers history and science. Since 2016, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 22 times, most often “A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Caitlin Green's posts on archaeology and ancient trade, such as Indian silver coins in Britain, an Anglo-Saxon colony on the Black Sea, and Africans in Britain, as sources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The personal website & blog of Dr Caitlin Green
Most-linked posts?
- A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-01-17
- Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-18
What Hacker News says?
I'm not an expert, but I think it's a given that high-value durable goods like this could change hands many times. For example, probably no-one travelled all the way with the Indian metal objects which have been found in Britain: https://www.caitlingreen.org/2014/12/indian-silver-coins-in-... .
Comment linking /2014/12/indian-silver-coins-in-viking-age.html
on “Tin Found in Israel from 3k Years Ago Comes from Cornwall”Submitted A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015) as a story · 124 points
HN discussionOld link is dead, this seems to be it now: https://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/medieval-new-england-bl...
Comment linking /2015/05/medieval-new-england-black-sea.html
on “A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015)”Submitted The medieval 'New England' on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015) as a story · 118 points
HN discussionSimilarly, the single Bronze-Iron age result they find is from the Isle of Thanet, which was a major trading post (see: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-pho... )
Comment linking /2015/04/thanet-tanit-and-the-phoenicians.html
on “Evidence for Africans in Britain from the Bronze Age to the Medieval Period”Submitted A very long way from home: early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted King Alfred and India as a story · 103 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England as a story · 91 points
HN discussionSubmitted A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015) as a story · 77 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saharan and trans-Saharan contacts and trade in the Roman era as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall as a story · 62 points
HN discussionSubmitted Camels in early medieval western Europe (2016) as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted Macamathehou in Lincolnshire and people named Muhammad in medieval England as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evidence for Africans in Britain from the Bronze Age to the Medieval Period as a story · 46 points
HN discussionSubmitted Early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world (2017) as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why 'Cousin Jack'? The origins of the nickname of the Cornish overseas as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted The antiquity of Ogilby's 1675 road from Lincoln to Grimsby as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Medieval 'New England': A Forgotten Anglo-Saxon Colony on the Black Sea Coast as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Huns in Anglo-Saxon England? Some Thoughts on Bede, Priscus and Attila (2015) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Another eleventh-century medieval Chinese coin found in England as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Medieval 'New England': An Anglo-Saxon Colony on the North-Eastern Black Sea as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thanet, Tanit and the Phoenicians: place-names, archaeology and pre-Roman tradin as a story · 1 points
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