A 3rd-/4th-century AD tin ingot from Carnanton, Cornwall; it weighs around 40 pounds and was found in 1819.pic.twitter.com/BMOGIm7914
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Looking in the opposite direction around St Ives Bay from Phillack Towans to Godrevy & Gwithian, the latter having produced significant quantities of 5th- to 6th-century Byzantine imports.pic.twitter.com/9gdUu0isB1
The Red River just before it flows into St Ives Bay, Cornwall; the early medieval Gwithian site with its Byzantine imports lay a little inland from this point, within a wide landscape of deep deposits of wind-blown sand on the northern side of the Red River estuary.pic.twitter.com/kT6SjeqA0G
Map showing the landscape of the Red River estuary at Gwithian c.1000 AD and the location of the 5th- to 8th-century sites (via https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310596540_Gwithian_Scientific_dating_AMS_programme …); the sites were positioned along the top of a linear sand dune (pictured), probably then located on the edge of a tidal inlet.pic.twitter.com/8mLTiqpStF
A selection of reconstructed post-Roman bar-lug pots excavated at Gwithian, Cornwall: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/gwithian_eh_2007/downloads_images.cfm …pic.twitter.com/mnq44lyjVc
Spindle-whorls found at Gwithian, Cornwall, made out of fragments of Late Roman 2 amphorae—British Bi—produced in the Aegean (C. Thomas).pic.twitter.com/rfdsUKhDUW
St Ia and St Senara in stained glass at St Senara's Church, Zennor, Cornwall.pic.twitter.com/SG5nNlrf9B
The earliest insular traditions about St Ia are found in the 'Life of Gwinear', written c. 1300 by Anselm, BnF Latin 15005, ff. 68r–71v: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90670160/f69.image …pic.twitter.com/PTqZc2Rp3t
The martyrdom of St Ia in the late 10th-century 'Menologion of Basil II', commissioned by/made for the Byzantine emperor Basil II (r. 976–1025): https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1613/0050 …pic.twitter.com/RzQKozFAOF
St Ia had a shrine in Constantinople located right by the main imperial ceremonial entrance to the city, the Golden Gate; this shrine was apparently extensively and lavishly renovated by the Emperor Justinian (527–65): https://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/01/st-ia-of-st-ives-byzantine-saint.html …pic.twitter.com/xrCtkGT33l
How beautiful are the jade hues in that
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Thanks! :)
If you ever give up on your vocation, Dr Green, there will always be photography
But don't give it up, anyway.
Too kind, thank you! :)
shhh! Don't tell everyone! ;)
Ah, good point...! ;)
Who needs the Algarve :)
It has its charms ;)
I bet! Probably the Algarve would easier me to get to though :)
Someone should write a book about these finds.
Lucky girl.....
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