The site of the burial ground of an early medieval keeill or chapel, which would have been in use between circa AD500 and AD1000.  St Matthew's Chapel or Keeill Vian was recorded by P.M.C. Kermode in 1915, when it had been part preserved through having been converted into a root-house.


The building stood within an enclosure was on a naturally raised plateau about 120 metres above sea level, but its bounds could not be clearly traced, but would be as shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. Graves had been found across the farm road and suggested that the burial ground extended further to the north. Many lintel graves had also been seen to north and west of the building.