What is recorded here

Daingean South Bog still covers a small wooden chamber built between 423 and 554 AD. Hazel rods and one oak plank formed a compact rectangle, perhaps a trap, a marker or a forgotten offering. People lived beside this bog then, shaping wood and reading water. They are gone, but their angles remain buried beneath the peat.

This site is located in the industrial peatlands of Daingean South Bog. It was recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as a dense cluster of brushwood elements and a single worked roundwood found alongside the drain edge (Whitaker 2014). On excavation in 2014 (licence 14E0309) it was interpreted as a peatland structure, measuring 2.76 x 1.71m. The site was dated cal. AD 423-554 (UBA 26599). A single cutting measuring 3 x 2m was opened. The excavated site consisted of two NW-SE orientated roundwoods, with a concentration of E-W orientated associated brushwood elements. All elements were in poor condition, having been mostly exposed on the field surface. Three chisel-point worked ends with flat facets were noted. The species identified were mainly hazel, with one alder and a radially split oak plank found. No overlying peat remained, but the site was underlain by moderately humified Sphagnum peat (Whitaker 2017). Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer Date of upload: 25 February 2020

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