What is recorded here

Post row is a vanished peatland marker in County Longford, reduced to a thirty-four centimetre wood fragment and a tiny peg aligned across a drain. The wedge-cut end suggests a tool rather than decay, while the opposite peg suggests a line, boundary or temporary structure now erased by farming. What is left is not a monument but a geometric hint: two small woods separated by fifteen centimetres, still pointing along the same invisible row.

A short length of roundwood (L 0.34m; diam. 0.07m) was located on the field surface, 1.65m WNW of a drain, and was being milled. The WNW end had a wedge point, probably metal cut. Only 0.05m from the opposite, or ESE, shoulder of the drain and on the axis of the roundwood fragment, a brushwood post or peg (diam. 0.04m) protruded through the milled surface. No other associated wood was evident. (Dunne 1999, 35, 99DBSE0026A) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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