Platform - peatland

The National Monuments Service's description

This site was located in the industrial peatlands of Lough Bannow Bog. It was recorded in the 2013 Re-assessment Peatland Survey as a togher exposed in section in the drain face 0.28m below the field surface. The elements were closely placed (Whitaker 2014).

A single cutting was opened and excavated under licence 15E0211. The site was situated in Sphagnum peat with Phragmites and Menyanthes inclusions. It was dated to 2857-2492 BC (UBA 26647). The excavation revealed a collection of NE–SW orientated hazel brushwood elements (L0.09-1.54m), with a single alder roundwood and single hazel peg. Within the cutting the deposit was 1.65 x 0.7m in size, although it was also visible in section in the opposing drain face which gives a minimum length of 3m.

Compiled by: Jane Whitaker/Femke Vleeshouwer

Date of upload: 28/02/2020

References

Whitaker, J. 2017 Final Excavation Report, Lough Bannow Bog, Co. Longford (15E0205–15E0213). Unpublished report prepared by IAC Ltd submitted to the National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.

Whitaker, J. 2014 Re‐assessment Peatland Survey 2013, Blackwater, Boora, Derrydreenagh, Mountdillon Group of Bogs, County Offaly, Longford, Westmeath and Roscommon. Unpublished report prepared by ADS for Bord na Móna.