What is recorded here

Above the oldest crannog layers in Brittas, a plank path reached a peat platform where a round house stood between two metalworking areas. One workshop contained a small furnace, burnt clay and a dump holding crucible sherds, a motif piece and more than six00 decorated mould fragments. A plank from the path points to about 625 AD, when someone may have carried hot brass or bronze across that narrow bridge, shaping little bright things in the dark water light.

Above the earliest sampled crannog occupation (ME005-088008-) a path (L c. 2.7m) consisting of planks laid transversely on two runners placed 0.9m approaches the mound from the N at the NE edge, probably from a jetty during Phase X. It leads to an occupation platform laid on a peat base, but a palisade retaining this peat base has not been identified. A plank from the path produced an estimated dendrochronological felling-date of 625 AD. This level consisted of a round house (ME005-088010-) with a metalworking area to the W and another to the NE (ME005-088009-) of the hut, between it and the path. The working area to the W (dims 5.3m x 5m) consisted of a furnace (diam. 0.35m; H 0.14m), a stone-lined area of burnt clay, a cobbled area and a dump of metal-working debris. This dump produced most of the artefacts from this phase, including a collection of crucible sherds, a motif piece and over 600 fragments of two-piece moulds, many of them decorated. (Bradley 1984-5, 83-5; 1990-1, 23-4; 1991, 18-22; O’Sullivan 1998, 106-07) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 6 September 2018

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