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Fabulous stuff. Trade routes were surely as much fertile channels of exchange for ideas, politics, skills, deities, magicks, people, sciences, knowledge, theologies etc etc as goods. If not the Phoenicians, then certainly the Greeks, Romans, Etruscans, Persians, Thracians etc. Maybe culture didn't weedle its way into Cornish hearts in the way Conan Doyle imagined it, but I wouldn't be surprised if ancient 'Cornwall' was far less insular than I / we think

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The Cornish still very much believe it. Phoenician can also simply mean Mediterranean people. so there is a lot concealed in that word. I'll get to talking about some of the invisible exchanges in the next pieces. The Cornish had colonies in Galicia and Brittany that were well developed and the Cornish/Breton language betrays those continuities. We've always looked out to sea from here rather than at the furriners in London!

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Very much anticipating part 2. I'm now working on a short bit about the caves at Grotte di Capelvenere - one of the many sites dedicated to the cult of Tanit in Sicily...

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Thanks Micah, we've only spent a short time in Sicily, enough to see the catacombs and scrabble through the haunted ruins of Cefalu. Look forward to your piece.

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Wonderful read. I'd heard about the ingots found on the Haifa deck, but have never seen them before. One of the undeciphered script characters bears an uncanny resemblance to the symbol on the Wondrous Candle at Boscastle; the ever teasing dripfeed of delightful syncs! "One part truth can transform nine parts conjecture into an enduring myth" is a lovely observation, very much looking forward to part two.

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The next part will be MWM and Cecil heavy, so you should enjoy that too.

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Loved this Peter ...

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Thanks Peter, more to come. Some great synchronicities while putting this one together.

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V interesting topic, Peter. I'm trying to figure out how Kelvin Jones contrived that book by Sherlock Holmes.... I think it may have been a cut and paste job using original text by someone like R A Courtney (who was a brother of Margaret Courtney I believe - and an interesting local author). Nice to see you the other day (and please do consider whether any of these recent pieces might work in the Enquiring Eye :) )

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Well met Rupert! I will have to write something for the Eye in due course, not sure what I am going to do with these pieces, may well collect them in a work on Cornish witchcraft.

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Enchanting synchronous adventures. Thank you for sharing this research.

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My pleasure Priscilla!

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