, a candidate to be Ictis, another candidate for Ictis.
William Camden, the
Elizabethan historian, took the view that the name "Ictis" was so similar to "Vectis", the
Latin name for the Isle of Wight, that the two were probably the same island. The
Cornish antiquary
William Borlase (1696–1772) suggested that Ictis must have been near the coast of Cornwall and could have been a general name for a peninsula there. In 1960,
Gavin de Beer concluded that the most likely location of Iktin (the form of the name he preferred) was
St Michael's Mount, a
tidal island near the town of
Marazion in Cornwall. Apart from the effect of the tide being consistent with what is said by Diodorus, de Beer considered the other benefits of St Michael's Mount for the Britons. In 1983, after excavations, the archaeologist
Barry W. Cunliffe proposed the
Mount Batten peninsula near
Plymouth as the site of Ictis. Near the mouth of the
River Erme, not far away, a shipwreck site has produced ingots of ancient tin, which indicates a trade along the coast, although dating the site is difficult and it may not belong to the
Bronze Age. The assessment of
Miranda Aldhouse-Green in
The Celtic World (1996) was that: , another island proposed as Ictis ==See also==