The monument includes a courtyard house settlement, situated on the lower north east facing slopes of a prominent hill on which Chun Castle stands, overlooking the upper valley of the Lamorna River. The settlement survives as a complex of three separate courtyard houses, with a fourth attached to at least seven clustered stone hut circles and a possible roofless fogou. There are further free-standing stone hut circles to the north west and a number of contemporary paddocks, gardens and enclosures. The walls, built of coursed granite, stand up to 1.8m high and many of the buildings still have door jambs at their entrances. The course of a prehistoric track, now re-used as a long distance footpath called the ‘Tinners Way’, curves around the northern half of the settlement.
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