Reposted by Matthias Ammon
Very pleased to have worked on this fascinating group of finds with the wonderful @francescatinti.bsky.social , and thanks to the comms team @cam.ac.uk for putting together the release. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/angl...
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Anglo-Saxon expats got special treatment in Rome’s 'Little England'
The first material evidence of the Schola Saxonum suggests the Anglo-Saxons in Rome were a thriving and valued expat community.
![An engraved inscription that reads:
This diagram illustrates the cause of the so called Earth Tides. Also each alternate Ocean Flood, the cause of which has never yet been understood.
RE EARTH TIDES: we are told that the Moon raises the solid surface of the Earth under it about 8 inches and raises the OPPOSITE SIDE 8. This I hold to be impossible. The phenomenon called EARTH TIDE IS CAUSED BY E-H’s WEIGHT PULLING …
[The remainder of this stone has worn but the Geograph contributor was informed that it ended: AGAINST THE SUN’S ATTRACTION.]
The water flows back when att’n over & forms a heap on opposite side of E. to balance att’n flood. There is no …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:673e6yusym7kyb2kkocwvesj/bafkreibecdemuvidsckodstd67vfnvjs2hf2ltwhjgmrthvaca7h3pk2le)
