What is recorded here

Six metres of willow, hazel and apple wood still lie scattered in the Longford peat, marked by metal tools and broken by time. The deposit is shallow, irregular and disturbed, yet the variety of trees suggests a deliberate human arrangement rather than random decay. Perhaps someone built a modest shelter or boundary marker there, then the land shifted and claimed it back. The peat preserved the fragments but took the shape, leaving only a ghost of a room behind.

This structure (L 6.1m; Wth 5.5m; D 0.23m) consisted of an irregular and widely dispersed deposit of c. 47 roundwoods (diam. 0.06-0.11m; L 0.2-0.3m) and c. 20 pieces of brushwood (diam. 0.025-0.055m; L 0.09-0.72m) laid one piece deep. The wood was in a moderate to good state of preservation, however, the majority of the elements were broken and little appeared to be in situ. Metal-cut toolmarks were evident throughout. Two sherds of post-medieval pottery were recovered from the peat around it, further suggesting disturbance. A wide variety of wood species was used, including willow, hazel, ash, alder, birch and apple-type. It was located 3.4m SW of another structure (LF004-048----) (Moore and O'Connor 2009b, 14-15, TOM 2). Compiled by: Mary Tunney based on data kindly supplied by Caitríona Moore. Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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