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Summary

A courtyard house situated in the south-west of the settlement to the west of Bosigran.

Protected Status: None recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Cornwall SURVEY NAME (temporary): NT 94458
• National Mapping Programme (Morph No.): 290.23
• OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW43NW 8.4
• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 30696.40
• SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW43NW 61.4

Monument Type(s):

• COURTYARD HOUSE (Iron Age - 800 BC to 42 AD)
• COURTYARD HOUSE (Romano British - 43 AD to 409 AD)

Full description

The OS survey at 1:2500 in 1961 records the remains of low grass covered banks in the south-west of the settlement at Bosigran (30696). They have a maximum height of 0.8m with a few upright projecting granite slabs set on edge. The east and south sides are of dry stone walling up to 1.6m high incorporated in the modern field wall. On the north side is an orthostat 1.5m high.The remains are too slight and mutilated for certain identification but they are almost certainly part of the settlement (h1). Pool and Weatherhill in 1979 record a definite courtyard house with a north-west facing entrance and one jambstone 1.0m tall. The courtyard and one long room survives, with jambstones in situ, but the round room, normally found opposite the entrance, has disappeared beneath the field wall and a dump of large boulders. The walls of the house are no more than stony banks up to 0.9m high (b6). Weatherhill in 1982 gives the measurements of the traceable extent of the courtyard house as 13m by 13m (h3, b7). Planned at 1:200 by CCRA/NT in 1982. Walls are now stone and earth banks up to 1.1m high. The south and east parts of the house are overlain and hidden or destroyed by field boundaries and lynchets. The site is visible on air photographs (p1, p2) and was plotted for the NMP.

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Site history:
1: 1961. PITCHER, GH / OS
2: 1975. QUINNELL, NV / OS
3: 1975. WEATHERHILL, C / CCRA
4: 1982. NDJ ET AL / CCRA, NT
5: 1986. HERRING, PC / CAU
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<1> Hirst, FC, 19--, Archaeological Notes on West Penwith (Unpublished document). SCO3593.

NMR, 1979, SW4237/7/472 (Photographic Record). SCO16584.

<2> UNKNOWN, 1937, UNKNOWN TITLE, APPENDIX (Article in Journal). SCO7286.

CAU, 1988, F15/117-121 (Photographic Record). SCO17159.

<3> Hirst, FC, 1937, Courtyard House Sites in West Cornwall, 84N, 97 (Bibliographic reference). SCO3594.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1970s, 1:10,000 OS Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4045.

<5> Russell, V, 1971, West Penwith Survey, 54 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4314.

<6> Pool, PAS & Weatherhill, C, 1979, A Report to the National Trust: Iron Age Sites at Bosigran (Bibliographic reference). SCO5141.

<7> Weatherhill, C, 1982, Courtyard Houses of West Penwith. A Survey, 22-24 (Bibliographic reference). SCO5029.

<8> Cornwall Archaeological Unit, Field Drawing (GRE), GRE 212, 26, 30 (Cartographic materials). SCO5089.

<9> Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 198-, Drawing Archive, Hanging (GRH), GRH 683, SW 4236 NW, 4236SW; 68249-11 (Cartographic materials). SCO5088.

<10> CAU, 1984, Field Survey Context Card, 253 (Bibliographic reference). SCO5175.

<11> Herring, PC, 1987, Bosigran, Zennor, 102-108 (Bibliographic reference). SCO3569.

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