MONUMENTS PROTECTION PROGRAMME

MONUMENT CLASS DESCRIPTION

BURNT MOUNDS

FEBRUARY 1988

1 Definition 2 Date 3 General Description 4 Distribution and regional variation
5 Rarity 6 Survival and Potential 7 Associations 8 Characterisation criteria
12 Bibliography 13 Acknowledgements 14 Figures


BURNT MOUNDS.

Alternative and colloquial terms: Boiling mound; Cooking hearth; Cooking mound; Cooking place; Cooking site; Deer roasts; Fulacht fiadh; Giants cinders; Hearth; Mound, boiling; Mound, burnt; Mound, cooking; Mound, pot-boiler; Pot-boiler mound; Stone cooking site

Ordnance Survey map term: Burnt mound