Burnt Mound

Burnt Mound (English for burnt hills, also deer roast - called Hirsch roaster in Ireland: ancient cooking place or Fulacht Irish fiadh or Fulacht fiann ) referred to in the British Isles, including 200 on Orkney ( Hawell, Meur, Liddle Burnt Mound ) and the Shetland Islands ( Ness of Sound, Bressay ) a special kind of find sites from the Bronze Age. Especially many are from Ireland ( Ballyvourney Burnt Mound ) and some from Scandinavia ( there called Skärvstenshögar ) known. In 1990 the first results were published on Bronze Age Burnt mounds on the coast of Sweden.

The first plants were identified by archeology at excavations at Ballyvourney in County Cork and in neighboring Killeen. A typical value is 1.8 m long and 1.0 m wide in the middle rectangular or trapezoidal trough. In the southwestern part was a decision adopted by set upright stone plates, at the other end of which was a secondary stove. In the northeast, a stone aggregate pit was two meters in length, the one-sided tapered in width toward the front end of 1.8 m to 0.8 m. It was identified as oven or Bratgrube. One may not be simultaneous, by post holes reconstructed irregular hut contained traces, which became known as " the butcher blocks ". Sometimes were " logboote " ( dugout canoes ) part of such plates, as in Teeronea, County Clare and Derrybrusks, County Fermanagh. Hobs are very common when one includes places like Ballycroghan, County Down. In rare cases, fire hill include permanent structures. Cruester is one of the few places that are known. Most of the others were discovered in the Shetlands. Orkney and the Western Isles only single specimens have been found. Very few have been excavated.

They are interpreted as remnants of breweries, rings, textile production centers or saunas. However, the offbeat location and the out-of- use - go these places by the Bronze Age can not be explained. Approximately 1600 fire hills are listed in the National Heritage lists of Scotland. For Ireland expects Anne- Maire Denvir with 20,000 such places. In County Cork alone are recorded more than 2,000.

Demarcation

In Scandinavia and northern Germany were taken in 1906 ( by W. Deecke ) first recognized Gargruben (Danish Kokegroper, swedish Kokgropar med Skärvsten, Eng. Pit alignments ) is also a phenomenon of the Later Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Recent research characterizes such sites as cult fire or fireplaces places. They are much smaller than Burnt Mounds and show aboveground no structural features, but are also far away from settlements.

Appearance

Normally Burnt Mounds consist of a horseshoe-shaped wall of feuergerötetem rubble stone, which is mixed with charcoal and earth. In Ireland it is sometimes referred to as pine or crescent shape described, low stone walls. Your clearance is between three and 20 m. Similar structures have been discovered in the north- east of Ireland under only latter day rearranged by the storm dunes. These sites mentioned there Coastal Dwelling Places to have been in use from the Neolithic to the Early Middle Ages.

In the center of the stone ramparts are usually rectangular troughs of wood or stone slabs. Bring the always lying near a source structures with cooking operations in conjunction, where heated, thrown into the water trough stones are said to have the meat cooked. But the heating bath water and use as a sauna have been brought into the conversation.

Research

The sites were first described by Geoffrey Keating (about 1634) mentions in his history of Ireland Foras Feasa ar Éirinn. He describes them as places that were used by the Fianna in their hunts during the summer months to the festivals of Beltane (May) and Samhain (November) for the cooking of meat. The first plants were identified by archeology at excavations at Ballyvourney in County Cork and in neighboring Killeen.

Example Clare Iceland

The most numerous by far prehistoric monuments on the small island of Iceland in Clare County Mayo are the Fulachta fiadh or fire hill. They can be found in this density on any other of Ireland's offshore islands. Of the original 53 Fulachta fiadh still exist in 23 intact or largely intact. Their distribution is not uniform and shows a preference for the eastern, the main island facing page. Whether this is due to topographic factors is unknown.

Dating

Glassery Wood, a 1998 excavated space in the Kilmartin Valley, was a cash date 2800 ± 300 BC The result corresponds to an increasing number of early data in Scotland. For the Irish courts in County Cork are (partly by finds of bronze axes ) following periods of use before:

• Killeen (Cork ), ( 2 places) Early Bronze Age,
• Millstreet, Middle Bronze Age
• Drombeg Stone Circle 5th century AD
• In Balla, County Mayo there was a primer of the Late Bronze Age.