What is recorded here

Eighty years of rain erased the shape, leaving four birch rods and a chisel point scattered across sparse peat. The rods may have marked a doorway, a boundary or a child's game, but the moss swallowed the answer before anyone could ask it twice. What remains is not a ruin but a question the land stopped repeating.

An irregular and sparse spread (L 0.75m; Wth 0.25m; D 0.055m) of four pieces of milled brushwood (diam. 0.023-0.055m) on the field surface. Small, milled woodchips are present in the area around the site. Some of the pieces have been identified as birch and a single chisel point was recorded. Located 8m to the NW in the opposing drain face there is a stake (diam.0.054m). The site sits within poorly humified Sphagnum peat containing Eriophorum. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 1996. 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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