County: Wexford Site name: RAHEENAGURREN WEST (Site 24)
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: A003/042
Author: Thaddeus C. Breen, for Valerie J. Keeley Ltd.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: Undetermined
ITM: E 716300m, N 658075m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.661376, -6.280761
The site sloped gently downwards in a north-easterly direction towards a stream. It consisted of the remains of a burnt mound, with a spread of heat-shattered stone overlying a slightly larger spread of light-grey silty clay with occasional charcoal inclusions. Two small troughs were found under the outer part of this lower spread. One was circular, 0.87m in diameter and 0.33m deep. The other was subrectangular, 1.09m by 0.46m, and 0.16m deep, with a row of four stake-holes beside it. A circular pit containing charcoal-rich silty soil with burnt stone was found c. 6m from the burnt spread. It was 0.5m in diameter.
Other features included two isolated pairs of post-holes and a single post-hole, and two curved ditch-like linear pits that appear to have been natural geological features. Some plough furrows were found along the southern edge of the cutting, near the field boundary. Most of them were parallel to the field boundary, but a few were diagonal relative to this. These extended under the burnt spread.
Finds consisted mostly of struck flints, including some possible scrapers and some sherds of post-medieval pottery. A stone spindle whorl was found in the burnt-mound material.
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