9. Chapel

This is a rectangular building with a door central to the west-end wall and a buttress near either end of the south side; the wall to the east end has a large window with a round top. A likely building date range is 1580-1591, and the chapel was in ruins by 1830, with the east wall rebuilt about 1852.

Visible over the gate in the field next to the chapel, are cultivation terraces formed of linear ridges of earth which run down-slope.

Retrace your steps to the main track; turn right, and walk uphill to where the track bears left, and where it swings right walk ahead to two stone gate posts in a dry stone boundary wall in front of an oak wood. Left is a gate carved ‘Conservation Area, no public access PPJPB’. It is in order to enter the area – there is a fenced area to the right, walk diagonally right to the north for 40m towards a glade of oak trees on flat land; look for the tree with bird box no. 712 at about 5m height. Pass to the right and continue for about 15m to the tree with box no. 711, and pass to its left; continue ahead to box 717 (right) and box 718 (left) which has a circular hollow down to its right, cut into the bank with a dry stone lining and an opening to the left.