Chinese in Roman Britain

[ValentinianVictrix]

'In regards to East Asian slaves reaching Rome, I suppose it is possible. One source of slavery was the former Greek city of Tanais on the Sea of Azov, which was known as a trading post used firstly by Scythians and then later on Sarmatians and Alans before it was devastated by the Goths in around 330AD. Strabo described Tanais below although I think some of the Eastern nomadic groups were more sophisticated than Strabo believed & brought more than skins & slaves. Dyes, foodstuffs, leathergoods & weapons would have been popular barter items. It is possible that some of those slaves reached Rome and maybe Britain especially if they had certain skillsets like iron-working in the case of the Italian body as Vagnari was supposedly an iron-working region or maybe horse handling, there could be numerous reasons.'

We must not forget the Bosporan Kingdom in what is now the Crimea region as another contact point for Asiatic peoples and the Roman Empire. We know the Roman's supplied Carroballista to the Bosporan's for use against the Goths for example.