Lanyon

Nearest town:
Penzance (5km ESE)
OS reference:
SW42833440
OS sheet:
203
Latitude:
50° 9' 11.26 N
Longitude:
5° 36' 2.22 W
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Images

Image of Lanyon (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by thesweetcheat

Looking across another of the hut circles towards Boswens Common and the hillfort of Chun Castle.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.6.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 19, 2013
Image of Lanyon (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by thesweetcheat

Detail of the best-preserved circle. The boulder in the foreground has been cut into, with a circular feature that the Pastscape entry likens to a mortar.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.6.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 19, 2013
Image of Lanyon (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by thesweetcheat

Looking north across another of the simple circles to the unmistakable tor of Carn Galva.

Image credit: A. Brookes (24.6.2013)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 19, 2013

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Miscellaneous

Lanyon
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Aug 19, 2013

This site has been recently (May 2013) cleared by the fine people of Cornish Ancient Sites Protection Network (CASPN), leaving it easier to access and see than it has been for many years.

The site is listed in Craig Weatherhill’s excellent “Belerion” (Alison Hodge 1981), with a plan. There is a main group of 8 buildings, together with a triangular enclosure that may have been a pound. A Bronze Age date has been ascribed to the simple circular houses, which raises the possibility that this was the home of the people who erected the wonderful Nine Maidens of Boskednan stone circle and the Men an Tol, both of which are on the moors nearby.

The Pastscape record for the site mentions the following feature inside the settlement:

One item which appears to be associated with this settlement is a natural boulder about 0.9m sqare and 0.5m above ground, with a circular depression 0.15m in diameter and depth, cut into the top. It looks very much like a mortar and is adjacent to the NE side of the hut circle at SW 42813443.

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