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Summary

A courtyard house in the north-east of the settlement at Treen.

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument CO349: Ancient village 400yds (370m) SSE of Treen

Other References/Statuses

• National Mapping Programme (Morph No.): 293.48
• OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW43NW 12
• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 30725.10
• SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW43NW 79.1

Monument Type(s):

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

Full description

A courtyard house investigated by Hirst (b5), surveyed at 1:2500 by the OS in 1961 (h2) and listed by Russell in 1971 (b8). Weatherhill in 1982 records a courtyard house, No 2, connected by a slight lynchet to Courtyard House 1 (30725.3). The house measures 20m by 20m with a north-west facing entrance which leads into a long narrow courtyard, on the north-eastern side of which is the poorly preserved long room. On the southern side of the courtyard are two oval rooms. The westerly, the larger of the two, is at a substantially higher level than the remainder of the house. The second oval room has a small 0.3m high orthostat on the western side of its entrance. The round room is well defined and the western jamb of its entrance, 0.8m high, survives. Fragmentary masonry remains on the north side of the house but the walls are mostly sharp, grass grown banks up to 1.5m high (h4, b10). The monument is included in the Schedule. The site is visible on air photographs (p1-p6) and was plotted for the NMP.

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Site history:
1: 1956. SAUNDERS, AD / MOW
2: 1961. PITCHER, GH / OS
3: 1975. QUINNELL, NV / OS
4: 1975. WEATHERHILL, C / CCRA
5: 1980. SHEPPARD, PA / DOE
6: 1984. SHEPPARD, PA / DOE
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<1> Ordnance Survey, 1900s, 2nd Edition 6 Inch Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4051.

RAF, 1946, 3G/TUD/209/5043&5111 (Photographic Record). SCO10842.

<2> Henderson, C, 1914, Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities, VOL II, 187, PL 197 (Unpublished document). SCO3503.

NMR, 1977, SW4337/1/47-49 (Photographic Record). SCO16257.

<3> Hirst, FC, 19--, Archaeological Notes on West Penwith (Unpublished document). SCO3593.

NMR, 1979, SW4436/1/1&2 (Photographic Record). SCO16607.

<4> HIRST, FC, 1937, UNKNOWN TITLE, VOL 10, 4, APP (Article in Journal). SCO7280.

NMR, 1979, SW4437/2/482 (Photographic Record). SCO16619.

<5> Hirst, FC, 1937, Courtyard House Sites in West Cornwall, VOL II, 96 (Bibliographic reference). SCO3594.

NMR, 1979, SW4337/4 (Photographic Record). SCO16605.

<6> Saunders, A (for DOE), 1956, Scheduled Monument Description (Bibliographic reference). SCO5179.

NMR, 1979, SW4436/6/1 (Photographic Record). SCO16613.

<7> Ordnance Survey, 1970s, 1:10,000 OS Map (Cartographic materials). SCO4045.

<8> Russell, V, 1971, West Penwith Survey, 54 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4314.

<9> Sheppard, PA (for DOE), 19--, Scheduled Monument Description (Bibliographic reference). SCO5181.

<10> Weatherhill, C, 1982, Courtyard Houses of West Penwith. A Survey, 82, 84-85 (Bibliographic reference). SCO5029.

<11> Sheppard, PA (for DOE), 19--, Scheduled Monument Description (Bibliographic reference). SCO5181.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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