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Liddle Burnt Mound
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 it on three sides.〔Hedges 1985, p. 17〕 The purpose of the site is controversial, but most investigators believe burnt mounds hosted a "domestic function",〔Ovrevik 1985, p. 145〕 perhaps related to cooking.
== Discussion ==
The Liddle Burnt Mound is located on Liddle Farm; the farmer, Ronald Simison, had been using the mound as a quarry for road metal until he came across stone structures in 1972.〔Ritchie 1995, p. 94〕 He alerted Colin Renfrew who was excavating at Quanterness. John Hedges, a member of his team, investigated the site and recognized the remains of a stone building at the center of the mound. The building is oval with thick external walls. From these, interior walls project into the main room creating compartments, one of which houses a hearth.〔 In the centre of the structure is a large recessed, stone tank, lined with flagstones and rendered waterproof by the surrounding clay.〔 The capacity of the tank is nearly one thousand litres and it was found half filled with stones that were shattered and "fired" by intense heat.〔Hedges 1985, p. 18〕 Hedges originally thought that the building represented a house, but he was troubled by the distribution of features; for example, there is no obvious place to sleep.〔
The surrounding mound still rises to a height of in places, and calculations suggest an original volume of at least .〔Hedges 1985, p. 19〕 It consists primarily of shattered stone, charcoal, and ash. Artifacts recovered from the mound include hammerstones, pot lids and pottery. These items, combined with the tank and hearth found in the building, suggest that the site was used for cooking.〔 Burnt bones of goat and sheep support this interpretation,〔Ovrevik 1985, p. 146〕 which was put to the test with an experiment in Orkney where a leg of lamb was cooked in a stone tank heated by a peat fire.〔Hedges 1985, p. 21〕
Dating of materials excavated from the mound indicate that the site was in use between 1200 and 500 BC.〔Ritchie 1995, p. 95〕
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