What is recorded here

Daingean South Bog hides a small wooden chamber from the late 1200s or 1300s, built from three roundwoods, two pegs and brushwood spanning barely a metre and a half. Machines have already broken two of the roundwoods, yet a flat chisel mark still shines on one edge, proving human hands shaped the frame before peat swallowed it. The chamber may have stored tools, seeds or memory for a family who worked the bog edge. It is no longer a house for the living, but it remains a room time forgot to finish taking.

This site is located in the industrial peatlands of Daingean South Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as a single tool-marked brushwood (Diam. 0.03m, L0.022m) located in a drain face 0.13m below the field surface (Whitaker 2014). On excavation in 2014 (licence 14E0308) it was interpreted to be a peatland structure. It was dated to cal. AD 1276-1389 (UBA 26598). A single cutting, measuring 3x2m, was opened. Very little overlying peat remained. The structure consisted of three machine-damaged roundwoods, an associated brushwood, and two short pegs, orientated NE-SW. The elements were irregularly shaped and covered an area measuring 1.48x0.79m. A single chisel point with flat faceted toolmarks was noted. The species identified from three brushwood elements were birch and pomoideae. The site was underlain by poorly humified Sphagnum peat with moss and fibrous plant matter (Whitaker 2017). Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer Date of upload: 26 February 2020

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