County: Down Site name: EDENDARIFF
Sites and Monuments Record No.: SMR 29:51 Licence number: AE/00/01
Author: Audrey Gahan, ADS
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 737121m, N 845702m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.341557, -5.891126
A burnt mound was identified during monitoring of topsoil-stripping for the Mourne Conduit Replacement (Aquarius Project). As an engineering solution could not be found that would allow for the remains to be preserved in situ, the site was manually excavated.
The mound was found to consist of a spread of charcoal-rich soils containing moderate to abundant amounts of heat-fractured and shattered stones. The spread of material, which was roughly circular in plan, measured c. 15m in diameter. It was an average of 0.1m deep. A subcircular pit was identified within the charcoal-rich deposits; it measured 1.2m in diameter and was 0.3m deep. This represents the possible remains of a trough or cooking-pit. Two stake-holes were identified close to the pit, with a third identified at the south-east edge of the burnt mound material.
No artefacts were located associated with the burnt mound.
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