What is recorded here
Fahee North holds a horseshoe-shaped mound of heat-shattered stone beside a water reservoir, its leaning slabs marking a submerged cooking trough. People likely heated rocks in the open air before dropping them into water to boil food or cleanse bodies, turning raw limestone into a temporary kitchen. The nearby ringfort suggests this was not a lonely experiment but a working part of a lived landscape where heat, water and patience met.
Situated in a flat area of exposed limestone pavement c. 15m NE of an enclosed water reservoir. A horseshoe-shaped grass-covered mound (diam. NE-SW 7.3m) open to the NW and very low at SE. There is some evidence of heat-shattered stone. Some leaning slabs protrude from the central area indicating the presence of a trough (c. 2.3m x 1.44m). A ringfort (CL010-022----) lies c. 115m to the SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 21 March 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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