434 liANYHORN OASTLE. 



A little further to tlie east is another fragment of a party wall 

 in this range of rooms which occupied the north side of the 

 courtyard. 



The eastern range of rooms was indicated by its inner wall 

 which existed in Whitaker's time, but now cannot with certainty 

 be identified. 



This was the original Castle of Lanyhorn, and that it was 

 furnished with a chapel is most probable, some black and red 

 flooring tiles being built into the walls of an out-house on the 

 site of the Eound Tower, and within the Manor Mill still 

 remains in the Mill bed, an octagonal stone, which is so built in 

 as to preclude its being thoroughly examined, but which is orna- 

 mented with the star ornament, roughly axed, and is probably 

 a portion of the font of the Norman Chapel. 



We have seen that in 1334 John Le Erchedekne obtained a 

 license to fortify his house of Lanyhorn, the original castle which 

 I have described, and from the evidence of tradition and old 

 foundations he added to the building by erecting a higher court 

 which extended to the north of the present roadway. Between 

 the north wall previously mentioned and the roadway from the 

 Church to the Mill is a long narrow garden, and here crossing 

 it and joining the north wall, were found about 100 years 

 ago, the foundations of several walls forming the divisions 

 between a suite of rooms that ranged along the northern side 

 of the north wall, and formed one side of a higher court. 



This court has vanished entii-ely and its extent cannot there- 

 fore be determined, pi-obably it formed a quadrangle. The 

 foundations of the higher court differed from that of the base 

 court in being laid in lime mortar instead of clay, thus showing 

 the later date at which it was erected. 



In the village itself a large number of elvan quoin stones, 

 cope stones, etc., can be seen built up in the walls, which 

 evidently came from the Edwardian Castle, which is clean down, 

 and even its foundations are entirely swept away. 



Whitaker in his notes states a tradition then current in 

 Lanyhorn, — That a giant once lived in this castle and another at 

 Trelonk, and that the giant of Lanyhorn fought with the giant 

 of Trelonk, the weapons being stones which they hurled at 

 each other. 



