Burnt mound

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a slight rise in a fairly level landscape. Archaeological testing (02E1812) identified two spreads of burnt mound material (Hayden 2006), which were subsequently fully resolved (Hayden 2006a) under a different licence (03E0169). This mound was a thin spread of broken and burnt stone (diam. 5.5m; T < 0.1m) with pits extending over a wider area (dims c. 10m x. c. 8m). A pit (dims 2.75m x 1.7m; max. D 0.7m) at the SE corner of the excavated area had a fill of redeposited subsoil over burnt mound material and silt, and it was cut by two smaller pits, but c. 4m W was a rectangular pit (dims 1.4m x 1.1m; D 0.6m) which cut a second pit (dims 1.6m x 0.8m; max. D 0.7m) that had burnt mound material at the base. Just to the N two pits (dims 1.8m x 1.4m; max. D 0.3m: 1m x 0.65m D 0.5m) were filled with broken and burnt stone, and there were four post-holes in two pairs 1.75m apart at the N edge of the excavated area. One perfect leaf-shaped arrowhead was recovered from the plough-soil. (Hayden 2003, 2003aa, 2-4)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 8 July, 2019

References

Hayden, A. 2006 Athboy Road, Trim: Burnt mounds. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 392, No. 1467. Bray, Wordwell

Hayden, A. 2003a Excavations of Two Burnt Mounds at a Development Site on the Athboy Road (Corporationland townland), Trim, Co. Meath. Licence No. 03E0169. Unpublished report, Archaeological Projects.

Hayden, A. 2003 Pre-development Archaeological Assessment of a Proposed Development Site at Corporationland, Athboy Road, Trim, Co. Meath. Licence No. 02E1812. Unpublished report, Archaeological Projects.

Hayden, A. 2006a Athboy Road, Trim: Burnt mounds. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 392, No. 1468. Bray, Wordwell