What is recorded here

Eight thin brushwood rods and one degraded timber lie scattered across humified peat in County Offaly, aligned northeast-southwest like a forgotten marker rather than a built chamber. The wood has lost its identity, yet its repetition suggests human hands arranged it along an ancient watercourse. Perhaps someone dropped a measure, laid a boundary or fed a ritual into the bog. The peat kept the shape long enough for doubt to form around it.

A dispersed spread of eight pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.015-0.04m), one timber and occasional twigs (Wth 1.85m; D 0.09m). At both extents the brushwood is orientated NE-SW and the central elements are orientated N-S. It was not possible to determine the conversion of the timber (Wth 0.1m), as all the wood present is in poor condition. The twigs are dispersed but are more concentrated below the timber. One degraded pencil point is evident. The site is in well-humified Sphagnum peat with some Eriophorum. This is one of a number of sites running along the line of a possible palaeo-channel orientated in a N direction across the bog, including SMR OF010-440---- to the N. Recorded by the Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College, Dublin) in 2001. 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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