10-21-2009, 02:24 PM
Quote:Anyway, it adds fuel to my scenario and I thank you for the tip.
Given the infuriating lack of relevent detail in the article I contacted a friend at Gloucester Museum who gave me this....
Quote:The suggestion that he may have been a `Goth' is just one suggestion and of the most likely barbarian groups it's one that more people have heard of so gets the most attention. He has been called the `Gloucester Goth' ever since he was found more than 35 years ago as a name rather than an assertion that he was a real Goth. The stable isotope and collagen analysis only revealed that he had a different diet to contemporary Romano-Britons and that he grew up in a cold climate to the east of a line roughly between where the Vistula enters the Baltic south to the Danube rather than demonstrating an ethnicity. I don't think that the metalwork has been reported on since 1975, so may need to be re-assessed.
I've got pictures of the finds somewhere if you're interested?
"Medicus" Matt Bunker
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