Bord na Móna Mitigation Program 2014–2017

Project overview

IAC were engaged to provide archaeological services for the Bord na Móna Mitigation Program between 2014 and 2017. This included the survey and impact assessment of seven working bogs in advance of extraction and subsequent excavation of 137 partially exposed sites. The sites comprised of extensive complexes and layers of wooden platforms, various trackway types running across the bog, stake rows, and hurdle structures. The majority of the sites were located within bog, bog-margins and associated with bog marginal forests.

Several sites were multi-phased and dated from the early Bronze Age to the medieval periods. Post-excavation analysis including analysis of the environmental and artefact assemblages was undertaken by a multidisciplinary team of environmental specialists; including waterlogged wood samples and peat samples for insect and pollen analyses.