County: Mayo Site name: DRUM
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 02E1016
Author: Paula King
Site type: Burnt spread
Period/Dating: Prehistoric (12700 BC-AD 400)
ITM: E 539764m, N 783216m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.795016, -8.914260
A spread of burnt material was uncovered in Drum townland during topsoil removal on the Knock Sewerage Scheme, Co. Mayo. The site was in a highly disturbed environment at the confluence of a modern open land drain and a canalised river. The spread measured c. 7m north–south by 6.7m and was a maximum of 0.4m thick. It comprised heat-fractured sandstone in a matrix of black, charcoal-stained, friable clay surrounded by a wider area of heat-fractured stones with very occasional flecks of charcoal. A buried streambed lay at the northern edge of the spread. Flint and chert pieces, including debitage and two scrapers, were retrieved.
Westport Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
