John Hicks in 1722 reported that the ruins of more than 40 houses were seen in his day, in the north-west part of St Ives, and that whole streets had been discovered under the sands… (Pics=Porthmeor sea-wall, https://www.flickr.com/photos/londonmatt/19715942466 … & Smeaton's 1766 proposed wall running A–B–C).
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Around 25m above St Levan's Chapel is St Levan's Well, which in its current form may date from the 18thC; note, St Levan is a modification of an original Selevan, from Salamun/Solomon: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/933661 & http://maps.nls.uk/view/101439638# & https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JxIjiMStTKIC&lpg=PA227&pg=PA227#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/MXtirz7wYk
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Robert Kearsley Dawson's 1832 map of St Ives, which shows and labels the Tregenna Stream, via http://www.tooleys.co.uk/counties_sw.html …pic.twitter.com/kPJD1d2xZU
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A lovely photograph of Porthminster beach c.1900, at the height of the seine fishing industry, with boats pulled up beyond the railway viaduct: https://www.placeify.co.uk/stivesarchive/#content-22 …pic.twitter.com/WTNzMla4gX
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Another interesting coastal chapel site is St Helen's Chapel, Cape Cornwall; a very early Chi-Rho stone was found here (5thC?), but has subsequently been lost (pic: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2106157 )pic.twitter.com/ISO5YsY4zB
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The reported site of a medieval chapel on the Towans looking towards Godrevy; the location recorded is immediately in the foreground of this photograph, although there are no visible remains.pic.twitter.com/RzoJsSmzxW
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Two large pillars from a presumed lost medieval chapel at Carn Brea, Cornwall, found in the walls of a cottage demolished in c.1910 and erected in the grounds of Trengweath, Redruth; the cross is a possible defaced medieval cross of unknown provenance.pic.twitter.com/Apbyl4U54i
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St Rumon's Cross, Redruth, thought to be connected with St Rumon's Chapel here, which was licensed in 1400 & "long in ruins" in 1745.pic.twitter.com/AQPH4Yxzrr
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Some more pieces of medieval stonework from the former 15th-century St Rumon's Chapel, Redruth, Cornwall.pic.twitter.com/MBP2mgpAld
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Chapel Euny Well, Sancreed, Cornwall, is the site of another lost medieval chapel; the chapel, which had an unusual plan and orientation, was ruinous in the 19th century and has now gone, but dressed stone from it seems to be used around the top of the holy well.pic.twitter.com/XuzOXvUrxB
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A view of Chapel Euny well from 1904: http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/issue.xhtml?recordId=1155300&recordType=GreyLitSeries …pic.twitter.com/PjAc5dHeKH
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