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  SM11006_Legal Doc

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Summary

Description

The monument comprises the remains of a post-medieval township and of a medieval chapel and burial ground, part of which is still used.

A deserted linear township of up to twenty buildings and yards lies either side of a street running NNW-SSE, set on gently sloping grass-covered ground not far from the head of Port Mor. The buildings survive as stony turf-covered banks standing up to 1m in height, and associated field walls standing up to 0.5 m high. Beside the settlement is a burial ground. The burial ground is bounded by the footings of a tumbled stone wall around the W half but this cannot be traced elsewhere. Within it lie the fragmentary ruins of a small chapel. The remains of the chapel are oblong on plan, oriented ENE-WSW, with measurements 6m by 3m, within drystone walls 1.5m thick and up to 1m high. The entrance to the chapel is in the S wall. Inside the chapel, at the E end, is a roughly circular hollowed sandstone block, believed to be a font. A cross-incised slab once stood here too, but this has since been moved.

The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains of the township, chapel and burial ground, as described, and an area around them in which evidence relating to the construction and occupation of the site is likely to survive. It is irregular on plan, measuring a maximum of 290m NW-SE by a maximum 125m NE-SW, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.

Statement of National Importance

This site is of national importance for its potential to contribute to our understanding of post-medieval rural settlement and economy, in particular its evolution from earlier periods. The presence of the apparently early church on the site suggests it is a very long-lived settlement focus.

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