Occasional Magazine Vol.4 No.3 (September 1928)
The Coming of S. Joseph of Aramathea to England, and the way by which he came. by W. Ravenscroft. The author concludes from historical sources that S. Joseph of Aramathea and his companions brought the Christian Gospel to England by way of Marseilles and Gaul in his own ship. Furthermore, he was following an established trade route for tin. Roman vessels sailed from Cherbourg to the Hampshire coast, sheltering at Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. A causeway to the mainland still existed at low tide, over which wagons brought the tin mined in Cornwall and transported from there by road to the vicinity of Hordle. In addition a coastal shipping route from Cornwall to the Isle of Wight was feasible. A sketch map of S. Joseph’s journey from the Middle East to England prefaces the paper.
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