Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Burnt mound
Ballynattin, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynattin
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.78186, -6.17595
- SMR number
- WI045-015----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This is the record for two adjacent burnt mounds excavated by Anne Connolly (97E0128) as part of the Arklow bypass scheme. One was a subcircular spread of burnt material (c. 7m NE-SW; 5.5m (NW-SE; depth 0.2m) from which one fragmented piece of worked flint was recovered. The second spread of burnt material was broadly subcircular in shape (12.5m NE-SW; 10.8m NW-SE; max. depth 0.45m). Associated with these a wooden platform consisting of narrow lengths of wood covering an area 1.9m in length and 1.4m in width. Beneath this platform was a series of wooden stakes which did not form any clear patterns. A sample from this wood was dated by dendrochronology and had a felling date of late-856 BC/early-855 BC. (http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Wicklow&id=4119)
Compiled by: Denis Power
Date of upload: 25 January 2013
Nearby in the register
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.