What is recorded here

One large brushwood rod with a chisel-point end still lies across smaller rods in a County Longford field, perhaps part of a platform built to span wet ground. The shape suggests people laid wood carefully, not casually, and walked or worked above the peat instead of sinking into it. That much is visible. The rest belongs to imagination: a farm lane, a boundary marker, a temporary bridge or a forgotten path. Even without a name, the structure resists erasure because its parts still fit together.

A number of closely packed small and large pieces of brushwood (exposed L 2m, Wth 1.6m) were exposed on a field surface that was being milled immediately to the WNW of a drain. Most of it extended longitudinally in an ENE-WSW direction. One large piece of brushwood (diam. 0.06m; exposed L 1.6m) had a chisel-point end. Additional transverse rods extended over and under this large element. The evidence suggested that this was likely to be the remains of a platform. (Dunne 1999, 39, 99DBSE0037A) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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