What is recorded here

Four metres north of a burial mound on the west edge of Lackan Strand, a thin ribbon of limpet shells and heat-shattered stones still lies trapped in grey-brown sand. The mound suggests death and memory, while the midden suggests hunger, heat and repeated return. Together they picture a coastal life in which people ate, burned, discarded and buried without separating the living from the dead.

Located 4m N of a burial mound (MA008-002001-) exposed beneath a field fence in the E-facing land-edge section bordering the W side of Lackan Strand. A concentration (D 0.2m; L c.4m) of limpet shells, intermixed with occasional charcoal fragments and small-medium sized, stones, some of which appear heat shattered, is visible in section within a layer (D 0.5m) of grey-dark brown sand. It occurs at a depth of c. 1m below the field surface level, and is c. 0.6m above the current level of the cobbles and boulders that cover the beach. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 2 July 2019

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