What is recorded here

Derryville bog in County Kilkenny holds a narrow wooden platform dated to 1484 BC, buried beneath centuries of peat and silence. Built from roundwood and brushwood laid with care, it may have marked a crossing, a boundary or a place of ritual on the wetland's edge. The bog kept what the world forgot, preserving the shape of human hands in darkness for thirty centuries.

Discovered by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (UCD) in Derryville bog during a pilot survey of Littleton Works in 1995 and surveyed in 2006 during a fieldwalking survey of the Bord na Móna industrial peatlands in the Littleton group of bogs (Licence nos. 06E0696-06E0706). A possible platform (Wth 2.6m; D 0.32m) composed of regularly laid roundwood and brushwood elements recorded in the drain face 0.68m below the field surface (orientated E-W). The wood was moderately preserved but was dried out where it was exposed. The roundwoods (0.05-0.15m) were mainly in the upper part of the structure. The platform was dated to 1484+/-9 BC. (Whitaker 2007, Catalogue no. KKDVE005) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 2 October 2013

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