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
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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
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
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