Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.
Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.
Add your photo and local directionsShare what you foundWhat is recorded here
This site is located in the industrial peatlands of Cornafulla Bog but its precise ITM was not recorded in both survey and excavation reports. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as roundwood and brushwood elements visible in a W-facing drain face 0.3m below the field surface (Whitaker 2014). On excavation in 2016 (licence 15E0187) it was revealed to be a possible platform structure. The site was dated to cal. 793-492 BC (UBA 26654).
The platform site was excavated within a single cutting measuring 5x2m. It was mainly composed of E-W orientated roundwood and brushwood elements, placed two to three layers deep. They were mostly birch and alder, with some lesser amounts of blackthorn present. Some larger elements were present at the W extent of the site, close to the drain edge, and were orientated N-S. Several elements had toolmarked ends. The majority of those were single, flat-faceted toolmarks with both stepped and clean facet junctions.
Immediately underlying and interspersed with the wooden elements was a layer of small twigs and leafy detritus, within which a deposit of wet grassland plants was found. These layers might have been used as packing or padding. The underlying and overlying peat at this site was rich in sedge.
Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer
Date of upload: 25 February 2020
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
The map shows the centre of the officially named townland area, not the monument. The government record does not identify the exact monument point.