County: Offaly Site name: CORHILL BOG, Lisdermot
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 00E0463
Author: Ellen OCarroll, ADS Ltd.
Site type: Structure - peatland
Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)
ITM: E 613326m, N 727544m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.298026, -7.800081
Excavations were carried out in Corhill Bog, Co. Offaly, as part of the Bord na Móna Archaeological Mitigation Project, in order to resolve known archaeological sites so that Bord na Móna could resume peat production in areas that had been cleared of archaeology. The field season ran from June to August 2000. This report describes the one-day excavation of thirteen pieces of wood. This site was first recorded as being the remains of a brushwood and roundwood trackway during the IAWU field survey in 1996. Excavation revealed thirteen pieces of degraded brushwood on the field surface; the upper surface of the wood had been milled. It was situated in an area measuring 0.95m north–south by 1.95m. Three of the more substantial elements ran north–south; the rest ran east–west. The brushwoods averaged 0.02m in diameter and were between 0.1m and 0.3m in length. They did not form any coherent structure. One of the larger brushwoods was cut to a chisel-point and was single-faceted.
The wood may represent the remains of a brushwood trackway, but, as there was very little wood found in the surrounding area, it most likely represents extraneous material from the larger platform structures excavated to the west.
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