Records state that at the back the inn in 1715 was erected a tin-smelting house—now a stores—soon after the reverberatory furnace was introduced by Becker, the famous German.    It is said that he superintended the erection the furnace.

Henry Gilbert, an ancestor of the famous Davies Gilbert, contributed to the erection of the works, and part of his crest—a paschal lamb—was adopted as a distinctive mark for the tin blocks.    It is recorded that this mark produced  a favourable impression among the people to whom the tin was exported, especially in Roman Catholic countries, where it conveyed to the minds of the people some notion of consecration, so that it gained a preference.

The present inn near the site the ancient smelting works was erected as a hostelry for the managers and workers.

Cornwall And The Greeks

_THERE is an interesting tradition that about the year 200 B.C. a party of Greeks who had emigrated from Phocis and founded the town of Marseilles, in the South France, /stimulated by the success the Phoenicians, sent out an expedition into the Atlantic.

This party, under a captain named Pythias, made the long-desired discovery of the land of tin and eagerly pursued the lucrative traffic.   They called Cornwall and its islands the Cassiterides, or the land of tin. and maps of the south coast of Britain were drawn by Greek geographers. 

It is said that the tin was exported from an island called Ictis, being brought there in wagons ebb tide. Some suppose Ictis to have been a port in the Isles of Scilly, or Lyonesse, afterwards submerged, and others the Black Rock at the mouth Falmouth Harbour.