1st December 2008, 01:01 PM
There was a very large burnt mound with an associated wooden trough found near Milford Haven. It will (I'm sure) be dealt with in the reports/monographs when they come out. This particular burnt mound also had what appeared to be a hearth associated with the wooden object and buried under some of the deposits of burnt stone. The excavation and removal of the wooden object was covered extensively in the Welsh media.
It was by no means the only burnt mound found and excavated on that or the other pipeline which was undertaken in South/mid Wales to the Midlands of England at the time. Each was excavated and many had associated troughs, mostly cut into the clay. One site had a number (I'm remembering 8?) of burnt mounds adjacent to each other.
I'm not going to be drawn on my thought on what they are. I have to admit, however, that some of the ones on those two pipelines did move me away from my usual reply to the question, which was 'bloody boring....'.
It was by no means the only burnt mound found and excavated on that or the other pipeline which was undertaken in South/mid Wales to the Midlands of England at the time. Each was excavated and many had associated troughs, mostly cut into the clay. One site had a number (I'm remembering 8?) of burnt mounds adjacent to each other.
I'm not going to be drawn on my thought on what they are. I have to admit, however, that some of the ones on those two pipelines did move me away from my usual reply to the question, which was 'bloody boring....'.