What is recorded here

Indicated is a ring-barrow on Saggart Hill where two cremations rest above a forgotten village and a timber sanctuary. The dead were placed over living houses, suggesting memory itself was built in layers. Furze and shadow have since swallowed the markers, leaving only the hill to hold what the people believed worth repeating.

Located in a forest clearing on the upper E-facing slopes of Saggart Hill immediately above the Slade Valley and overlooking the Verschoyles Hills (Kilbride-Jones 1950, 313-32). Prior to excavation of the site in the 1940s the site comprised a central mound (Wth 8.4m; H 1.2m) defined by a fosse (Wth 3.2m; D 0.7m), a bank (Wth 2m; H 0.75m) and an external v-shaped fosse (Wth 2.25m; D 0.84m; overall diam.41m). Both fosses had an outer retaining wall. Excavation revealed that the central mound covered two burials, both cremations, which were laid directly on a clay surface accompanied by Early Iron Age pottery. This composite site had been constructed over a habitation site and a timber structure referred to as a 'Sanctuary site' by the excavator. The habitation site consisted of five hut sites and a single communal fireplace. The 'Sanctuary site' was represented by three fireplaces and a total of 160 post-holes forming no clear pattern. The site is very overgrown with furze and regenerating trees. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 6 July 2018

A portal dolmen dating to the Neolithic period; its location suggests it was part of a broader ritual landscape associated with early farming communities in the region.

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