Fragments of 5th-/6th-century imported Mediterranean amphorae found at Tintagel, Cornwall; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/0nu7FOW6RN
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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
The tin trade has often been suggested as lying behind the exceptional presence of early Byzantine goods in 5th- to 6th-century Cornwall & western Britain; pictured is a possibly 7th-century tin ingot with a cross mark from Praa Sands, Cornwall, now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/DjQw8srNbk
A 3rd-/4th-century AD tin ingot from Carnanton, Cornwall; it weighs around 40 pounds and was found in 1819.pic.twitter.com/BMOGIm7914
A probably 8th-/9th-century AD oak shovel from the tin streamworks at Boscarne, Bodmin, Cornwall; now in @Cornwall_Museum.pic.twitter.com/Uhq9eRN9qY
The church of St Ia on the harbour edge before the building of the West Pier in 1894; up until the 17th century 'there was a field between the churchyard wall and Porth Cocking rock, and sheep grazed upon it', but it was washed away by the sea... (pic=https://www.placeify.co.uk/stivesarchive/#content-5 …)pic.twitter.com/DS9quYAaOQ
The view across the entrance to the Hayle Estuary looking towards St Ives; finds of 5th-/6th-century Byzantine pottery and a 5th-century Chi-Rho stone have been made from Phillack in the Hayle Estuary (pic: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4925335 )pic.twitter.com/MqAYs6Wa5I
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
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 …
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
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