County: Fermanagh Site name: CLAREVIEW
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: AE/12/127
Author: Cia McConway
Site type: FULACHT FIADH
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 679594m, N 764380m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.623180, -6.796825
Testing, in the form of ten test trenches, was carried out for Phase I of the proposed caravan development on land at Clareview near Kesh in County Fermanagh in November 2012. The testing revealed archaeological deposits consisting of a fulacht fiadh, or burnt mound, with trough and an isolated pit.
Subsequent to this, monitoring of topsoil removal was conducted in January 2013 in the area where archaeological deposits had been identified during testing. An area, 30m by 25m, was opened up encompassing the fulacht fiadh and the isolated pit identified during testing. This area included a 5m buffer zone of sterile subsoil enclosing the area of archaeological deposits.
The archaeological deposits uncovered consisted of a fulacht fiadh measuring 12m north-east/south-west by 13m by 0.3m thick with associated features and an isolated pit. One piece of worked flint and five wooden stakes were recovered from the excavation of the archaeological deposits. The presence of a fulacht fiadh suggests that the site was used as a seasonal cooking area. Although no dating for this site has taken place the majority of these sites tend to have been constructed during the Bronze Age, up until 1200BC, but there also is evidence that they continued to be built into the early medieval period.
c/o Archaeological Development Services Ltd, 96 University Street, Belfast, BT7 1TE
