St Michael's Mount: Evidence for the Lost Tin Island Ictis?

#DiggingForBritain #StMichaelsMount #BronzeAge
Beneath a tidal island off Cornwall, a 3,000-year-old story is stirring. Could St Michael's Mount be the fabled Ictis, hub of the ancient tin trade?

Join Digging for Britain as new research digs reveal Bronze Age pottery marked with a human fingerprint, crushing stones testing ten times higher for tin at their edges, and a coastline built for traders who watched the tides. Then the trail widens: a novice detectorist uncovers two Roman cavalry spathae near Gloucestershire, one pattern welded and only visible in x-ray; medieval burials in Wales tell of trauma, care and distant origins through isotope science; and cutting-edge 3D scans unlock the secrets of fragile Roman surgical tools. Finally, an exposed headland at Buckspool yields over 160 Roman coins and broken pots, hinting at offerings to the gods where waves thunder below.

From tin that forged an age to mysteries rewritten by science, this episode connects artifacts, places and people across millennia. Watch to see the evidence, weigh the clues, and decide for yourself.