What is recorded here

One crisp field in County Longford still holds a small wooden platform, its rods aligned east to west beneath the soil. Someone cut and fitted those pieces long before trucks or roads, perhaps building a crossing, a marker or a private chair for the land. The shape has survived every storm and season because it was made with care.

A small platform (exposed area 1.4m x 1.2m) located on the field surface was being milled. The remains comprised c. 40 pieces of small brushwood and twigs (diam. 0.01-0.02m) along with four larger pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.05m). All of the rods extended E-W except for the remnants of several transverse small pieces of brushwood. Two possible toolmarks were noted. Further remains were visible in the W face of a nearby drain. (Dunne 1999, 18, 99DNSW0002A) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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