More information : [SW 42223376] A settlement 75 yds W. of West Lanyon
Quoit(SW 43 SW 40) is scheduled as an ancient monument.
"Rectangular house about 25 ft. x 12 ft. together with remains of
other huts, some of them rectangular in form and small enclo
sures
in a piece of rough ground in the corner of a pasture field.
Overlooking valley that has been worked by tin streamers. Possibly
medieval. (1)
The walls seem to have originally been of dry stone construction,
from uncut granite rocks and rubble. They are now much spread, and
overgrown with grass and bracken, and are nowhere more than 1.4m.
high. Four huts can be identified.
A 25 inch survey has been made. (2)
SW 422337. In 1964 excavation was undertaken of the deserted
medieval site known
as 'Old Lanyon'. The excavations showed two
rectangular E-W houses a few feet apart. (3-4)
Initially constructed in the 12th century of alternate courses of
stone and turf with a roof supported by a central row of posts, each was later reconstructed as a longhouse. In this phase the
houses were stone walled with wood partitioned cross passages.
Finally occupied in the late 13th or 14th century.
There was 16th century re-use of the site when a barn was built
and the northern house had a cottage constructed upon the ruins in the 18th century.
Finds included pottery, whetstones, querns, socket stones, nails,
horseshoes, etc. (5)
Resurveyed at 1:2500. (6)
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