Burnt mound

The National Monuments Service's description

Located in the valley of a SE-NW stream, with an E-W section of the stream immediately to the S. Centre-line testing (E4067) in advance of the N25 New Ross by-pass identified a number of spreads of burnt stone in a natural hollow. Some were C-shaped or oval (dims. 1m x 0.7m to 5m x 1m) in plan (Doyle et al. 2010, 31-2). It was excavated (E4103) as a part of Camlin 2 (Area A) when two pits (dims 0.57m x 0.47m; D 0.06m: 2.2m NE-SW; 1.4m NE-SW; D 0.27m) were recorded, the latter with a large stone content in the fill, but it is uncertain if it was burnt. Nevertheless, it probably represents the trough of a fulacht fia. (Long and Hackett 2010, 8; Hackett 2013)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 24 September, 2013

References

Doyle, L., Hackett, L., Hession, J., Marshall, M. Yates, D. and Bolger, T. 2010 N25 New Ross bypass road scheme, Cappagh, Co. Kilkenny to Knockroe, Co.Wexford. Archaeological services contract, Stage (1) – standard test excavation, wetland test excavation, townland boundary survey and architectural/built heritage survey. Test excavation report, under Ministerial Directions Number A52 (E4067) Unpublished report. Headland Archaeology Ltd.

Hackett, L. 2013 Camlin 2. Burnt spreads and associated features. In I. Bennett (ed.), Excavations 2010: summary accounts of archaeological excavations in Ireland, 229, No. 724. Dublin. Wordwell.

Long, P. and Hackett, L. 2010 N25 New Ross bypass road scheme, Cappagh, Co. Kilkenney to Knockroe, Co. Wexford. Archaeological Services Contract, Stage (iii) – excavation, post-excavation assessment report for Camlin 2 in the townland of Camlin, Co. Wexford. Unpublished report, Headland Archaeology.