What is recorded here

Half a century of ploughing has not erased the heat. A long oval of broken stone still lies on the slope beside the Gowra, its burnt edges flashing when the soil turns, while three loose slabs mark the ends like forgotten chairs. Carmel Diviney first named the scar, but the shape suggests people gathered there to boil water, cook meat or cleanse skin before the burial ground seventy metres north received their bones. The field may have been kitchen, ritual or both, and the stones still smell of that uncertainty.

Situated on a gentle N-facing slope with the SE-NW River Gowra c. 15m to the W, and first identified by Carmel Diviney. An oval stony mound (dims 13m N-S; 5.6m E-W; H 0.4-0.45m) has two visible but loose limestone slabs (dims 0.7m x 0.5m; 0.8m x 0.45m) at its N end and one (dims 0.85m x 0.45m) at the S end. The immediate area when ploughed exposes an extensive area (dims c. 56m N-S; c. 20m E-W) of broken and burnt stones. The burial ground (ME038-051----) is c. 70m to the N. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 May 2015

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