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
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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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
Worth noting that two sites in St Ives Bay have produced 5th- to 6th-century Byzantine imports… One is the important post-Roman specialised industrial complex at Gwithian, Cornwall: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/gwithian_eh_2007/index.cfm …pic.twitter.com/ltvAFfBNhf
The other site in St Ives Bay with 5th-/6th-century eastern Mediterranean imports is at Phillack on the Hayle Estuary—generally thought to be an early Christian centre w/ other finds including this probably 5th-century Chi-Rho stone…pic.twitter.com/xQEAWMQlst
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
So that’s what I was really digging for, trying to rediscover the chapel, when I was building my sandcastles on this beach each
Summer holiday many years ago! 
Should we be reading anything into the “Minster” part of the name?
Yes! Borrowed from English but first recorded in 1301, does indeed refer to some sort of ecclesiastical foundation :) I've yet to find the chapel, alas, may have to give it another go though...! ;)
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