Road - class 3 togher

The National Monuments Service's description

The site (L 3.37m; D 0.72m) is orientated NNE-SSW and consists of two dense and compact layers of material. The upper surface (D 0.31m) is composed of over fifty pieces of brushwood, three roundwoods, one vertical peg and some beds of twigs. The brushwood is transversely laid and the three roundwoods are longitudinally laid with brushwood above and below them. The site is densest at its centre where it dips and peg and the majority of the twig beds are deposited at this point. The lower layer (D 0.34m) is confined to the centre of the site and is composed of five pieces of brushwood and two roundwoods. The roundwoods (diam. 0.07-0.09m) are transversely laid, while the brushwood (av. diam. 0.025m) is laid both transversely and longitudinally. No woodworking is evident. Wood species are dominated by hazel, with ash and Pomoideae also recorded. Radiocarbon dated to 1048-827 cal. BC (UCD-0149). It is situated in moderately humified Sphagnum peat with Eriophorum with fibrous roots and ericaceous roots.

Date of upload: 23 August 2013