Burnt mound

The National Monuments Service's description

Situated towards the head of a N-S valley at the headwaters of a stream that runs S and then W to the N-S Mahon River. It was first identified as a burnt srpead by C. Moloney (2006) in testing (06E0163) on the line of a water pipe, and subsequently sample excavated (06E0275) by B. Cosham.
This is a spread of burnt stone and charcoal-rich clay (dims. 8.5m N-S; 4m E-W; max. T 0.17m), but most of the monument was truncated by a N-S field bank on the E side. No features or artefacts were recovered, but a piece of oak charcoal produced a C14 date of 1615-1491 cal. BC (Cosham 2008, 3, App. 8). Burnt mound (WA024-118----) is c. 120m lower down the valley to the SSW. (Janes 2009)

Compiled by: Michael Moore.

Date of upload/revision: 12th May, 2011.

References

Janes, T. 2009 Shanakill: burnt spread. In I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2006: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 531, No. 1997. Dublin. Wordwell.

Cosham, B. 2008 East Waterford water mains supply, Contract 11. Final report on site 5 06E0275; a burnt spread in the townland of Shanakill, Co. Waterford. Unpublished report. Headland Archaeology.

Moloney, C. 2006 Report on archaeological testing and monitoring at Seafield, Bunmahon, Co. Waterford. Unpublished report. DEHLG (06E0163). Headland Archaeology.