The “burnt mound” was found at a site occupied from the Neolithic period until the medieval era, archaeologists said. ... was a pile of burned wood found buried below the surface.

A pile of burned wood was hiding an ancient discovery at an archaeological site in England. Screengrab from Cotwold Archaeology's Facebook post In a quarry in eastern England, archaeologists have ...

Figuring out what to do with the piles of burnt wood has been a bit of an undertaking, Preston said. The city’s usual contractor, which turns excess wood to mulch, would not accept charred logs.

Evergreen Fire Rescue said they’re getting questions about burn piles left sitting after forest mitigation ... Because when we’re doing landscape-scale mitigation, it produces a lot of wood.

But, for every pound of wood burned in an open pile, 1.82 pounds of carbon dioxide is released into the air, according to the Wood Products Council. A St. Paul nonprofit’s new wood-burning tool ...