What is recorded here

Three thousand years of rain and darkness preserved a twenty-six centimetre plank inside the Offaly peat. It emerged beside the Bord na Móna bog with scattered woodchips, catching the light like a forgotten rib from a drowned building. The exact purpose remains hidden, but the timber still holds the shape of human hands and the patience of the earth.

A plank (Wth 0.26m; D 0.095m) in the peat face of a private bog adjacent to the Bord na Móna bog. A number of displaced plank fragments and woodchips are present on the bog surface in the vicinity. The relationship between this material and the plank is unclear. The plank was dendrochronologically dated to 1081±9 BC or later (Q9788). Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1998. 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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