Burnt mound in Kilmaclenine — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Kilmaclenine holds two burnt mounds ninety metres apart, suggesting a place where heat and water were worked together rather than a single accidental fire. Under the pasture grass lie heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil, the remains of repeated labour in which people threw flame at rock until it cracked and gave up its stored temperature. The exact size has been lost beneath grass and forgetting, but the distance between the mounds preserves the shape of the activity: a small district of experiments, meals, baths or ceremonies in which ordinary stone was changed into a instrument of human use.

In pasture, immediately E of a field boundary and 90m W of another possible burnt mound (CO024-246----). A spread of heat-shattered stones and charcoal-enriched soil was visible under the grass but its extent was impossible to determine. The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

Burnt mound, likely dating to the Bronze Age. These features are commonly associated with ritual or industrial activities, such as heat-treated stone use in cooking, tanning, or ceremonial practices.

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