A burnt mound is an archaeological feature consisting of a mound of shattered stones and charcoal, normally with an adjacent hearth and trough. The trough...
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Liddle Burnt Mound is a Bronze Age site on the island of South Ronaldsay, Orkney. The site consists of the remains of a building and a mound that surrounds...
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The Burnt mound in Fox Hollies Park is a Bronze Age burnt mound archaeological feature located in Fox Hollies Park, in the Fox Hollies area of south Birmingham...
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Tumulus (redirect from Burial mound)
tumulus (pl.: tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds or (in Siberia and Central...
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examples are known. In Great Britain and the Isle of Man they are known as burnt mounds, and similar objects are found in Sweden. Permanent structures are rarely...
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Mesolithic sites featuring burnt mounds, post-Mesolithic sites are significant for featuring significant remnants of flint, charred mounds of stones in close...
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again by CFA, in 2005 of a burnt mound, the first such feature to have been excavated in this part of the Highlands. The mound was radiocarbon dated to...
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toilet Reservoir Well Other architecture Archaeological features Broch Burnt mound fulacht fiadh Causewayed enclosure Tor enclosure Circular enclosure Goseck...
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have resembled that of Perchta groups in Germanic areas. There is a burnt mound site in County Tipperary known as Fulacht na Mór Ríoghna ("cooking pit...
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evidence of Bronze Age burnt mounds near Langley Mill Farm, at Langley Brook. Additionally, evidence for a Bronze Age burial mound was discovered, one of...
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Long barrow (redirect from Long mound)
explaining the meaning and purpose behind the monuments. Long barrows are single mounds, usually of earth, which are flanked by ditches. They are usually between...
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toilet Reservoir Well Other architecture Archaeological features Broch Burnt mound fulacht fiadh Causewayed enclosure Tor enclosure Circular enclosure Goseck...
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the 6th millennium BC; a small cone-shaped piece of lead, found in the "Burnt House" in TT6 at Arpachiyah, dated to the Halaf period or slightly later...
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burial. The tomb was in continuous use for a millennium or more. The burnt mound at nearby Liddle, discovered by Simison in 1972, is the best example...
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tombs, each with their own courtyard, but both sharing a common burial mound. The court cairn is also found in Western Scotland. The similar layout of...
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(Levant, 7600–6000 BC) Baodun culture Jinsha settlement and Sanxingdui mound. Çatalhöyük Cardium pottery culture Comb Ceramic culture Corded Ware culture...
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Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic...
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toilet Reservoir Well Other architecture Archaeological features Broch Burnt mound fulacht fiadh Causewayed enclosure Tor enclosure Circular enclosure Goseck...
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and wedge-shaped), and they may be covered with an earthen mound (or "tumulus") or rock mound (or "cairn"). Archeologist T. Douglas Price argues that the...
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axe hammer (MBM1793); Moor End Farm Burnt Mound (MBM778). Northfield Relief Road pit (MBM2455). Ridgacre Burnt Mound, near Moor Farm (MBM779); Selly Oak...
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individual croft houses. It is known for its Neolithic remains including a burnt mound, and for sea caves. The roofless, plain, Old Haa (manor or laird's house)...
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