What is recorded here

Burnt pit in Barnahely is a shallow circular hole reddened by fire and filled with charcoal, discovered in County Cork during test-trenching for a factory. It sits beside broken millstones but lacks a visible building, suggesting people once ground grain or heated tools in an open field before forgetting the exact purpose. The pit preserves the heat and labour of hands that no longer remain, turning ordinary soil into a marker of lost routine.

In 1996 a circular, shallow, fire-reddened pit (diam. 0.75m) was discovered during archaeological test-trenching in advance of the construction of a factory. The pit was filled with charcoal and ash. A millstone and two incomplete fragments of millstones were also discovered in the vicinity but no archaeological structures that could be associated with the millstones were revealed. Subsequent archaeological monitoring did not reveal any further archaeological features. (O'Donovan 1996; 1997, 10) The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 5' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2009). Date of upload: 22 December 2009

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