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Platform

Platform, peatland

What is recorded here

Two angled wooden pegs still stand in the Baunmore peatland, perhaps the last bones of a longer platform that carried people across wet ground before peat cutting removed the rest. They are small, worn and easy to overlook, yet they preserve a moment when someone refused to wade and built a way through instead. The bog has taken nearly everything else, but those two tilted timbers keep the shape of human patience alive.
Two roundwood pegs (L 0.73-1.7m; diam. 0.07-0.09m) with worked ends, 0.77m apart, angled towards each other, in a poor state of preservation. Possibly the substructure of a more substantial platform (Wth 1.83m; D 0.5m; L 8m) which has been milled away. Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 26 November 2012

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