County: Down Site name: DRUMAROAD
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/00/09
Author: Audrey Gahan, ADS
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 737121m, N 844302m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.328989, -5.891769
During monitoring of topsoil removal for the construction of the Mourne Conduit Replacement (Aquarius Project), a burnt mound spread was identified. This measured c. 10m x 3m and consisted of a deposit of charcoal-rich soil containing abundant amounts of heat-fractured and shattered stone.
Construction of the pipe-trench would have resulted in the destruction of approximately half of the feature, and therefore this portion of the burnt mound was manually excavated. The remaining section was preserved in situ. No artefacts were recovered from the excavation, nor were any further features associated with the burnt mound activity identified.
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