Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

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THanks for that. I ll contact Mr Conyer asap..once I have worked out how to use the RAT system. These sites bemuse me overmuch!
Yes..Its curious how these "coincidences" crop up and they are spooky. I worked on sarmaty for years and paid no attention to the Lancashire/Brit connection. Simply had no interest and barely knew of it. Then someone wrote to me asking things..I think because of stuff I put in a Polish academic revue. "What" they asked, "did iknow of Jazyges in Ribchester". Well, of course, I didnt. But the hairs on the back of my head prickled a bit. One side of my family comes from Ribchester. We always ignored the fort. Other bits of the family lived in Roman way housess on the old Affetside route which was all Jazyge horse route stuff. All very peculiar. There is something else. Asp is an Alan word for horse. It means nothing in an England whre Egyptian reptile asps werent known about until hundreds of years after Sarmaty came here. But, Clitheroe and thereabouts..Forest of Bowland, have a few family names that interest. Aspin, Aspdin, Aspinal are but a few. Totally sarmatian names. No escape from that fact. |I ve doen similar with Polish names..of coruse, its easier out there, More of em!
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