More information : [SW 4360 3607] BRITISH VILLAGE [ NR ] [SW 4377 3605] BEEHIVE HUT [NR ] (1) There is a Beehive Hut at Bosphrennis, at Bosporthennis, Zennor, consisting of one circular and one rectangular chamber measuring respectively 13' diameter and 9' by 7', with a communication between the two at 'B' [See plan - the plan and illustrations are by J.T. Blight.] See AO/59/253/8 and AO/59/254/1-2. (2) The beehive hut and hut circles at Bosporthennis, Zennor are scheduled as ancient monuments. (3) A 25 inch survey has been made of the Beehive Hut. Hirst's identification of the beehive hut as a fogou, (recorded elsewhere) must be considered doubtful. The 'above ground' fogous in the region are all 'buried' in a mass of rubble, giving the impression of underground features whereas the beehive hut appears as a free standing edifice with dry stone walling of normal appearance. The similarity in construction however, with the forgou at Chapel Euny would indicated an association and similar date to the courtyard house settlements nearby. Ground photograph AO/61/17/2 shows the hut from the N.E. and AO/61/17/3 from the S.W. A 25 inch survey has been made of the remains of courtyard houses or hut circles at 'A' SW 4361 3602, 'B' SW 4362 3609 and 'C' SW 4383 3614. The most westerly remains at 'A' consist of two well defined contiguous circular chambers, with other remains immediately to the south, which have been mutilated by a modern field wall having been built through them. The circular chambers have a communicating entrance, and one other entrance to each chamber. There are two upright stones, acting as door jambs, still standing. The modern field wall passes through an oval chamber, with an internal sub-division. The group seems to be one or possibly two courtyard houses. There are traces of a paddock, presumably associated with the courtyard house or houses, on the lower ground to the NE. It consists of a low bank sometimes incorporating boulders and outcrop. Seventy metres to the north east at 'B' are some fragmentary curved banks of earth and stone, nowhere more than 1.1m high. These may be the remains of one or more courtyard houses, or of several hut circles set very close together. In the vicinity of both 'A' and 'B' are several other small fragments of bank, somtimes including large stones. They may be parts of other structures or the remains of field banks but are too amorphous and overgrown for identification. The most easterly site, at 'C', surveyed consists of a circular chamber and a bank leading from it to the south. The north east side of the chamber is bounded by a modern field wall, and the rest is formed by an earth and stone bank, varying in height from 0.3m to 1.1m. This feature is not certainly a courtyard house but may be merely a hut circle with other, possibly later, field banks. (4) No change to survey of 7 2 61. (5) Settlement (NR) (6) Courtyard house village with two courtyard houses, remains of several huts and one beehive hut, listed also as a possible above-ground fogou by Russell. Clark discusses the structure and concludes that it does not possess enough of the usual features of a fogou for it to be regarded as such. (7-8)
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