Burnt mound

The National Monuments Service's description

Excavated (06E0277) as site 7a on the line of a water-pipe for the East Waterford Mains Supply. It is situated on a gentle E-facing slope with a N-S stream c. 190m to the E. An area of charcoal (dims. 5.5m N-S; 4m E-W; T 0.1-0.35m) was encased within an elongated mound of broken and burnt stones (dims. 18.5m N-S; 6m E-W; T 0.1-0.2m) overlying riverine silts. There was no evidence of a trough, and the mound was bisected by a WNW-ESE field drain and clipped by a N-S field drain at the E edge. The burnt stone extended outside the excavated area to the W. Burnt mound (WA015-109----) is c. 160m to the N. (Wren 2006, 4-6; 2009)

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of upload: 17th December, 2010.

References

Wren, J. 2009c Shanakill Prehistoric burnt mounds. In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 531, No. 1998. Dublin. Wordwell.

Wren, J. 2006 East Waterford Supply Scheme. Preliminary report on archaeological investigations at sites 7a and 7b in the townland of Shanakill. Unpublished report DEHLG (06E0277), Headland Archaeology.