What is recorded here

Structure is a structure, peatland in Cloonshannagh (ballintober North By., Roosky Ed), County Roscommon, Ireland. It is a brushwood platform dated to AD 1039-1207. The site is in Cloonshannagh Bog. It has nine brushwood elements.

This site was located in the industrial peatlands of Cloonshannagh Bog. It was first recorded in the 2013 Reassessment Peatland Survey as exposed on the field surface, and composed of nine brushwood elements that were laid side by side (Whitaker 2014). The site was excavated in 2014 under licence 14E0272, and dated to cal. AD 1039-1207. It consisted of less than a dozen poorly preserved brushwoods, laid longitudinally within the cutting with an E-W orientation. They were sparsely laid and in poor preservation. As the site was located on the field surface the excavated elements may represent the remnants of a more substantial structure that has been milled away, or it may have been the site of a small, localised, simple platform (Coughlan and Whitaker 2019). Compiled by: Femke Vleeshouwer/Jane Whitaker/Tim Coughlan Date of upload: 17 April 2020

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