What is recorded here
Identified in centre-line testing, and excavated (E3355) as Currinah IV during 2006 as part of the N5 Charlestown by-pass road. Situated in a low-lying basin. An oval mound of burnt stone (dims. 8.4m E-W; 3.8m N-S; T 0.2-0.3m) overlay a stone and wood-lined trough (ext. dims. 1.7m N-S; 0.7-0.9m E-W; D 0.2m) with a base of brushwood and split roundwood. It produced C14 dates between 1254-1045 Cal. BC. (Kerrigan 2009a; Kerrigan and Gillespie 2010a, 133-7)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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