What is recorded here

Thirty centimetres of topsoil and half a metre of peat remained above the platform, but the field had already taken most of it. What survived lay flat beneath a farm lane in County Longford: twenty rods of wood, some as thin as a wrist and one as thick as a thigh, set diagonally across the damp ground like a forgotten answer to a question no one remembers asking. A drain cut through the middle, exposing the edge where the building stopped and the earth began.

A platform exposed on the field surface to the WNW of a drain was largely milled out (exposed area 2.35m x 1.6m). Approximately twenty pieces of brushwood and roundwood (diam. 0.03-0.12m) were noted, orientated generally NE-SW. A large brushwood, orientated N-S, was visible in the opposite or ESE drain face, close to the surface. Several more pieces of brushwood, with random orientations, were evident on the surface at the same level as the main spread. There were no visible signs of woodworking. (Dunne 1999, 33, 99DBSE0020A) Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data supplied by Jane Whitaker, Archaeological Development Services. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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