County: Tyrone Site name: RNI05 A4/A5, Site 1, Grange
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/06/105, AE/06/224
Author: Paul Masser, Headland Archaeology Ltd, 13 Jane Street, Edinburgh EH6 4AP.
Site type: Prehistoric burnt mounds
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 662748m, N 856750m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.455380, -7.032343
Trial-trenching in June 2006 under licence AE/06/105, on the location of a new roundabout at the junction of the A4 and A5 by Ballygawley between 26285 35667 and 26276 35687, and along the line of the A4, revealed a burnt mound associated with peat deposits. Further excavation between August 2006 and April 2007 under licence AE/06/224 exposed more than twenty burnt mounds. The site is in a poorly drained hollow at the edge of the flood-plain of Ballygawley Water. A network of palaeochannels crossing this hollow had deposited islands or levees of alluvium, on which most of the burnt mounds were situated. Most of the burnt mounds were associated with pits and troughs, ten of which had well-preserved organic linings constructed of various combinations of planking and wickerwork.
