St Ia of St Ives: a Byzantine saint in early medieval Cornwall? — new post by me :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/01/st-ia-of-st-ives-byzantine-saint.html …pic.twitter.com/yjxAbnEbX5
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One further site in the St Ives area where Mediterranean imports (sherds of African Red Slip Ware & an amphora) are said to be found is Hellesvean, St Ives, though it is usually rejected due to confused records… (pic=5th-century ARSW bowl on display in the Royal Cornwall Museum)pic.twitter.com/1yS878bcZw
The 15th-century church of St Ia at St Ives, Cornwall, built on the site of an earlier chapel: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Ives_Parish_Church_01.jpg …pic.twitter.com/dAhhDissxw
There was a shrine to St Ia by the Golden Gate at Constantinople in the 6th-century, apparently lavishly restored by Justinian; she was martyred in the 4thC by the Sasanian emperor Shapur II: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ia_de_Perse … & https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1613/ … (Menologion of Basil II, 10thC)pic.twitter.com/IcHu60tdWT
Fragments of 5th-/6th-century imported Mediterranean amphorae found at Tintagel, Cornwall; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/0nu7FOW6RN
An aerial view of St Ives looking across to Porthkidney Sands and the Hayle Estuary, where finds of 5th-/6th-century Phocaean Red Slip Ware from the eastern Mediterranean and a 5th-century Chi-Rho stone have been made: https://www.intocornwall.com/engine/photo-gallery.asp?link_t=aerial+views+of+cornwall&photo=st+ives&ph=709 …pic.twitter.com/gJUiPNu9Be
Looking across St Ives Bay to Hayle from Porthminster Beach, St Ives; fwiw, an early chapel and stone cist burials were exposed here by the shifting sands in the 1870s, but have since been buried again.pic.twitter.com/7eSWezCXMj
The entrance to the Hayle Estuary, with Lelant Towans on the left; another probable buried chapel and associated graves were found beneath the sand-hills here in the 19th century by railway workers, see https://issuu.com/cornwallarchaeologicalsociety/docs/no.3_1964 … (pp. 34–36).pic.twitter.com/u9sITExC0q
Other early medieval finds from St Ives bay, Cornwall, include this 7th-century bar-lug cauldron/cooking pot from Gwithian & platter from Hellesvean, St Ives, on display in @Cornwall_Museum (see above on both findspots).pic.twitter.com/mlTLTkbMlj
For a few more thoughts on links between Britain and the Byzantine Empire, see here: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/721621412037992448 … :)
Incidentally, there are no Byzantine coins yet from St Ives Bay, but there is one from the Roman-era settlement at Chysauster, Cornwall, located around 4 miles from St Ives — a coin of Maurice Tiberius (582–602), minted in Alexandria…pic.twitter.com/RqDWqbzCfZ
From a bit further up the coast, a 6th- or 7th-century Byzantine coin found several inches down in a rock pool on Perranporth beach: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/469910 …pic.twitter.com/k0AtkNOQlg
Mediterranean imports and early Christian sites of the fifth to seventh centuries in and around St Ives Bay, Cornwall: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/01/st-ia-of-st-ives-byzantine-saint.html …pic.twitter.com/xkfMbn3cym
Of course, the St Ives Bay finds of Mediterranean imports are part of a wider picture of such finds in 5th- to 6th-century Cornwall and western Britain & Ireland in general: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/01/st-ia-of-st-ives-byzantine-saint.html … & http://www.caitlingreen.org/2017/03/a-very-long-way-from-home.html …pic.twitter.com/FiwY1ISXaJ
For interest, a topographic map of the area around St Ives Bay, showing the two significant rivers emptying into the bay, both of which have important sites producing 5th-/6th-century eastern Mediterranean imports on them: http://en-gb.topographic-map.com/places/Hayle-3844143/ …pic.twitter.com/kI5W5mZNHA
Interestingly, the only Roman villa currently known from Cornwall, at Magor Farm nr Camborne (excavated 1931–2), was located on the northern river valley emptying into St Ives Bay… http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=426186 …pic.twitter.com/jmEOBcpQI8
Fragments of a painted plaster wall and a tessellated pavement found at the 2nd–4thC Roman villa at Magor Farm, Cornwall; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/nJ6YAhX1lI
The Hayle estuary also has notable Roman finds, including this copper bowl containing a hoard of Roman coins, found at Hayle, Cornwall, in 1825 by workman building the causeway.pic.twitter.com/WKKJ3HgUan
Perhaps of particular interest given the 5th-/6th-century eastern Mediterranean finds from St Ives Bay are a number of 4th-century Roman coins from eastern mints also found at Hayle, e.g. https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/101765 …pic.twitter.com/LuR8CH5MCw
Looking across the entrance to the Hayle Estuary from roughly the position of the buried early medieval chapel at Lelant.pic.twitter.com/qXmHqQta8C
A 5th-century memorial stone from Hayle found next to a cist grave under a mound in 1843: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/hayle_1.html …pic.twitter.com/ZBUeQFYyUS
An interesting blog on the conservation work being undertaken by @HayleHeritage on the 5th-century Cunaide Stone from Hayle, Cornwall: http://www.hayleheritagecentre.org.uk/cunaide-undercover/ … (h/t @StephenCWLL)pic.twitter.com/6TZ2NpJ8nU
Fragments of spindle whorls made out of African Red Slip Ware found at Tintagel, Cornwall; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/vkwWjSSTca
A reassembled 5th-century Phocaean Red Slip Ware bowl from the eastern Mediterranean, found at Tintagel, Cornwall.pic.twitter.com/G5rmovU4U5
The late medieval church of St Ia at St Ives, with the harbour and town behind.pic.twitter.com/aYXEBAggvi
A closer view of the 15th-century church of St Ia at St Ives, Cornwall.pic.twitter.com/vIcK0WbWz7
Two sherds of fifth- to sixth-century eastern Mediterranean Phocaean Red Slip Ware with impressed crosses found at Tintagel, Cornwall; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/sbDKMat4uB
Venton Ia / St Ia's Well, a holy well on Porthmeor Hill, St Ives -- it was covered, faced and floored with granite into two compartments in 1692-3: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4913242 pic.twitter.com/g8PGEH6BFA
Christopher Saxton’s 1576 map of St Ives Bay, showing the Hayle Estuary and the positions of St Ives, Phillack and Gwithian.pic.twitter.com/fNYQ5TVUQi
The church of St Ia overlooking the harbour at St Ives before the building of the Western Pier in 1894, by N. Conata: https://www.artuk.org/discover/artworks/st-ives-harbour-15231 …pic.twitter.com/9upvdOw3i2
A 15th-century standing cross in the churchyard of St Ia's church at St Ives, Cornwall; the north face bears a depiction of St Ia. The cross was buried in the churchyard at the time of the Reformation and was rediscovered in 1832.pic.twitter.com/zp6xmuYiXh
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