St Ia's Cross, a medieval cross that formerly stood by the chapel of St Ia at Troon; it is now located in Camborne churchyard.pic.twitter.com/2B9UwNzY2v
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St Ia's Cross, a medieval cross that formerly stood by the chapel of St Ia at Troon; it is now located in Camborne churchyard.pic.twitter.com/2B9UwNzY2v
The chapel of St Ia at Troon is thought to have been founded in the 10th century and the last reference to it dates from the 16th century: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1441204 … & https://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/explore/items/st-ia-chapel-camborne …pic.twitter.com/VwtJE0JaHQ
The medieval church of St Ia at Porthia (St Ives), with the harbour beach in the background.pic.twitter.com/hQFGMTvRDN
The 6th-century early Christian memorial stone of Senilus at St Just in Penwith; Andrea Harris has argued that St Just may be another imported early medieval cult, suggesting a link to the 4th-century St Justus who served as bishop of Lyon before retiring to Egypt as a hermit.pic.twitter.com/iwOP59UEEN
St Just church is also home to this rather lovely 9th-century granite cross shaft, discovered built into the wall of the north aisle of the church in 1865.pic.twitter.com/i0yBBe8p6v
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
For more on late Roman & early medieval Continental/Mediterranean links to the St Ives Bay area and the evidence for 4th- to 6th-century activity here, seehttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/1002276733746405377 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Looking across from Phillack Towans to St Ives.pic.twitter.com/7X7IeG708n
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
All this international trade & cultural exchange in Cornwall was triggered purely by the presence of tin?
Open to debate, but is certainly mentioned in a 7thC Byzantine saint's life and there's a long, demonstrable interest in southwestern tin; however, note that known burials of potential Mediterranean post-Roman migrants are in south Wales...
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