> It was actually lying beside a trackway, not an integral part of it.
No indication of its intended pupose at all?
> There was a hollowed out log utilised as a /Fulacht fiadh /trough. It
> had been heavily truncated by a Bord na Mona drain-cutter to the extent
> that the hollowed-out bit was not as evident as it might have been, and
> when we got someone who knows about these things to look at it, he said
> it was not likely to be a canoe because he felt it did not have adequate
> capacity for buoyancy. But guess what? We got two or three days of heavy
> rain in October, and the darn thing was floating about in the cutting.
Don't you just love it when that happens? 8-)
> The water was too deep to attempt to get in and paddle about, and it may
> have sunk with a persons weight, but for a couple of days it tantalised
> us with its canoe-like ability. I have a photo of it if you're
> interested? Not floating though, sadly.
Sure, that'd be interesting.
> Back to the big log, yes it was bog oak (or at least it had become bog
> oak)
He gets me back for my 'exotic' comment... 8-)
> and it was like slicing Iron!
From my limited experience with carving bog oak, that sounds about right
If I recall, the reason for slicing
> the end off was to recover the tool marks for later analysis, and also
> to get an age and date from it. I don't recall the angle of the cuts,
> but then I think it may have been trimmed once felled.
I had wondered about that. Might it have been intended, perhaps, to be used as a
trough also? Were the logs at all similar in size?
> I'll email the Director I worked for at the time and see if he has any
> better memory than I do, which I'm sure he does as I have Alzheimer's I
> think. Or do I? I forget. Never mind.
That'd be useful. Meanwhile, if anyone has access to a copy of the Lisheen
report itself, it'd be a help if they could take a peek. I'm kicking myself I
didn't plough through the whole thing when I had a copy here, but I was mainly
searching it for information on settlement evidence and datings...
Stiof
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