What is recorded here

Laughanstown is a place where seven broken ditches still outline a long curving strip two hundred sixty-seven metres across. Granite and earth built a boundary thick enough to resist forgetting, while Medieval pottery, a glass fragment, a horseshoe piece, a plough pebble and residual flint waited beneath the soil. The fields may have fed horses, people or pride, but they stopped being ordinary when development threatened to erase them. Remembering the shape is not nostalgia; it is a warning that ownership includes witness.

A linear field system covering sections of three fields was found during pre-development investigations in 2002. It was delimited by seven non-continuous ditches forming a long curving strip (L 267m, Wth 100m). There were large quantities of granite within the ditch and and to the N, suggesting a substantial earth and stone boundary. Artifacts from the ditches included local Medieval pottery, a glass fragment, a horseshoe fragment , a plough pebble and residual flint artifacts (Seaver 2004, 172). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy. Revised upload on: 26 May 2018.

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