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Shell Mound, midden in County Cork (CO076-011----)

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On Brick Island in estuary to N of Great Island, joined to mainland by narrow neck of land. Island used for mussel farming; midden in SW quadrant. Overgrown; concentration of oyster shells visible in parts along southern shoreline scarp. When surveyed by Power (1930, 124) midden measured 'five or six feet thick at the…

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On Brick Island in estuary to N of Great Island, joined to mainland by narrow neck of land. Island used for mussel farming; midden in SW quadrant. Overgrown; concentration of oyster shells visible in parts along southern shoreline scarp. When surveyed by Power (1930, 124) midden measured 'five or six feet thick at the terrace edge' and 'extended along the foreshore for over one hundred and eighty yards and inland for seventy or eighty feet'; it contained 'nearly pure oyster-shells with occasional cockle, mussel, whelk and other marine shells'. 'Thin layers of charcoal were visible in many places' and 'stone pounders varying in size'. (Atkinson 1874, 258-259, no. 2) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO076-011

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  • The Echo; individual photographer not named on article, www.echolive.ie
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