Crossword-Solution: ICTIS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

For there is now very little doubt indeed that Thanet is the Ictis or 'Channel Island' to which Cornish tin was conveyed across Britain for shipment to the continent.

Michael's Mount to be the Ictis of the ancients, but the idea that the natives would have carried their tin across to this incommodious little islet for the sake of selling seems absurd, when we consider that they could have sold it much better on the mainland.

The description by Diodorus Siculus, often quoted, has a tempting look, but it cannot persuade us that the Mount was Ictis.

Then they beat it into square pieces like a die, and carry it to a British isle, near at hand, called Ictis.

For at low tide, all being dry between them and the island, they convey over in carts abundance of tin." To suppose that Ictis was the Isle of Wight would carry us too far back, for it was only in prehistoric days that Wight was connected to the mainland so closely; and the general conclusion now seems to be that Ictis was the island of Thanet, in every sense convenient for the traffic.