What is recorded here

Knockmark holds a small mound of heat-shattered stone in County Meath, the kind of place where water, fire and human patience may have met before the landscape forgot the lesson. It sits at the lowest point of a level area, as if the land itself learned to collect rain and transform it. A flint knife surfaced near the mound, suggesting someone stood there often enough to lose a tool or leave one behind. The stones still carry the shock of heat, even if the hands that arranged them have disappeared.

Situated at the lowest point of a fairly level landscape. Topsoil stripping (02E0194) in advance of a gas pipeline identified two spreads of burnt stone (BGE: 1A/21/1) but they were inadvertently damaged and one destroyed before the monument was completely excavated (02E0633). It consisted of a mound of heat-shattered material (dims 5.4m NE-SW; 5.2m NW-SE; max. D 0.2m). The only artefact recovered was a flint knife from the surface during monitoring. (Byrne, E. 2002; 2004; 2007) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 8 March, 2018

Burnt mound in Knockmark is a Bronze Age ritual or industrial site, characterized by scattered heated stones. Its significance lies in providing evidence of early land use and possible ceremonial activity in an otherwise flat landscape.

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