What is recorded here

One straight timber lies split across the Offaly bog, its sharp end cutting through months of rain and forgetfulness. It belongs to a hidden line of markers stretching north and south, perhaps guiding feet along a drowned channel when the land was young. The wood has survived every storm that erased the path, waiting patiently for someone reckless enough to walk the old road again.

A single timber (L 1.6m min.; Wth 0.08m; D 0.035m) on the field surface with the upper surface split and damaged by milling. It is an irregular radial split with a metal-cut pencil point at one end. The timber is in moderately to well-humified Sphagnum and Eriophorum peat. This is one of a number of sites running along the line of a possible palaeo-channel orientated in a N direction across the bog, including SMR OF010-453---- to the N and SMR OF010-468---- to the S. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 2001. 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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