Looe Island

[2] Some scholars, including Glyn S. Lewis, suggest the island could be Ictis, the location described by Diodorus Siculus as a centre for the tin trade in pre-Roman Britain.

These coins were recovered from one of the shallow ditches forming a 'pear shaped enclosure' which encompassed the top of Looe Island and the later Christian chapel site.

The child Jesus was believed to have visited the Island with his uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, who traded with the Cornish tin traders.

Looe Island was already a place of pilgrimage for early Christians before the creation of this story and a small thatched roofed chapel was built there during this time.

The priory was replaced by a domestic chapel served by a secular priest[10] until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 when it became property of the Crown.

[12] During the Second World War, Looe Island was for a time renamed as 'H.M.S St. George', following the dropping of a probable parachute mine which resulted in a large crater in the summit.

The article continued "H.M.S St. George is still riding peacefully at her anchorage in Looe Bay, after being bombed recently by a Nazi air-raider in what would seem to have been an attempt to sink her.

This is a non-profit-making venture, the landing fees and other income being devoted to conserving the island's natural environment and providing facilities.

In 2008, Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team visited the island to carry out an investigation into its early Christian history.