What is recorded here

A forked alder branch, barely a metre long and no wider than a child’s arm, lies buried in sour peat where heather roots still tangle through the soil. It may have been a marker, a tool handle, or simply a broken bough dropped by someone walking that wet ground. The peat kept it sharp enough to identify but robbed it of any shape that would explain its purpose. What is left is a wooden fragment waiting for a story that never survived with it.

Part of a forked branch and some smaller pieces of brushwood orientated NW-SE (L 1.28m min.; Wth 0.34m; D 0.05m). The wood is in poor condition as a result of milling and the larger branch has been identified as alder. It sits in poorly humified Sphagnum peat containing much ericaceous root. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1996. The evidence is not sufficient to warrant its acceptance as the remains of an archaeological monument. The original survey description was compiled by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin). Assessed and revised by: Caimin O'Brien, Paul Walsh Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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