County: Armagh Site name: Clarkill
Sites and Monuments Record No.: - Licence number: AE/06/102
Author: Norman Crothers, for ADS Ltd, Unit 48, Westlink Enterprise Centre, 30–50 Distillery Street, Belfast, BT12 5BJ.
Site type: Burnt mound
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 700041m, N 822039m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.137627, -6.469023
This site was excavated as part of the recently completed BGE (Northern Ireland) gas pipeline. This site consisted of the ploughed-down remains of a burnt mound, 5m long by 3.85m wide, with a maximum depth of 0.1m. This burnt-mound material sealed a number of features, the largest of which was a possible trough on the western edge of the mound. The trough measured 2.1m long by 1.5m wide with a maximum depth of 0.4m. The trough, which had near-vertical sides and a fairly flat base, was filled with dark-brown sandy clay with frequent charcoal inclusions and burnt stones ranging from 0.1 to 0.2m in diameter. The burnt-mound material had also sealed seven stake-holes, ranging from 0.12m by 0.11m by 0.04m deep to 0.23m by 0.15m by 0.1m deep and filled with charcoal-rich silty clay.
