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URL:https://cornisharchaeology.org.uk/events/tresibbet-medieval-hamlets-an
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SUMMARY:Tresibbet medieval hamlets and Goodaver Stone Circle led by Pete He
 rring and Carolyn Kennett
DESCRIPTION:Tresibbet is a well-preserved medieval settlement on Bodmin Moo
 r\, part way down the Fowey Valley. Two small hamlets each have a couple o
 f longhouse farmsteads\; among the best-preserved in Cornwall. There are o
 uthouses\, yards\, mowhays and gardens. They were built where Bronze Age f
 armers had lived and worked before\, and the medieval farmers reused some 
 of their curvilinear fields and repurposed several of their round houses (
 hut circles) as pens or gardens.\n\nAround them the land they shared was s
 ubdivided into strips to enable fair share holding. At least one group of 
 these strips was laid out using the 18-feet Cornish rod. We get a sense of
  fairness and civilisation in one of the most marginal medieval settlement
 s in Cornwall. The land within the fields was cultivated by spade-dug lazy
 beds\, some of which survive as earthworks.\n\n\n\nBriefly\, probably in t
 he 18th century\, the largest longhouse was reused by having a small farmh
 ouse placed in its shell. This too is now ruined but its fireplace contain
 s a beautifully preserved bread oven\, not of cloam (clay) but of carefull
 y corbelled small granite stones. We will probably lunch among these ruins
  and will wonder how people lived in this exceptionally beautiful place\, 
 with its glorious views along the deep Fowey valley.\n\nThen we climb onto
  the rounded ridge above\, where the medieval farmers summered their cattl
 e and sheep. At its southern end\, hard against the land of Goodaver\, we 
 will visit a prehistoric stone circle that has long been hard to reach. It
 s new owners\, Bill and Lucy\, are just opening it to the public. This is 
 Goodaver Circle\, within a couple of miles of Jamaica Inn\, discovered and
  restored in 1906 by the Vicar of Altarnun. There is uncertainty about how
  accurately the circle was restored as only 3 stones stood in 1906 and now
  23 do\, but recent studies suggest that the Rev. AH Malan did a careful j
 ob.\n\n\n\nThis is one of Cornwall’s most elevated stone circles\; the v
 iews are panoramic and they have been revealed by the removal by Bill and 
 Lucy of coniferous shelter belts to the north\, west and south\, and by th
 e coincidentally simultaneous felling of Smith’s Moor plantation to the 
 east.\n\nJohn Barnatt had noticed that midsummer solstice sunset was over 
 Brown Willy\, the hill that most immediately catches the eye here\, and th
 ere are other astronomically interesting alignments to others of the hills
  that ring the circle. Pete Herring and archaeo-astronomer Carolyn Kennett
  will discuss how it sits within the moorland landscape and Carolyn will h
 elp us understand how the circle also fits in with the modern and prehisto
 ric skyscape\, and with key astronomical events.\n\nPete is studying the h
 amlets in a landscape survey commissioned by Bill and Lucy. Carolyn has be
 en considering the Circle’s astronomical interest.\n\nMeet in the yard t
 o the north of the new barn at Dozmaryhill Farm\, at SX 1985 7542\, What3W
 ords cherished.chum.vipers. We’ll cross the Fowey by the new footbridge.
CATEGORIES:Walks
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