It is not a dramatic find by any conventional measure, but that is part of what makes it worth attention. Bogs preserve organic material with remarkable fidelity, and the traces they yield are often the quietest evidence of how people moved through and managed a landscape that was never easy to inhabit.

What the milling exposed was modest in extent, roughly one and a half metres by just over a metre, but specific enough to be suggestive. Four roundwood timbers, each somewhere between seven and eight centimetres in diameter and up to three quarters of a metre long, lay orientated on a west-northwest to east-southeast axis. One end of the timber had a degraded wedge-point, the kind of shaping used when a post or stake needs to be driven into soft ground. To the south of the main timbers lay a small tight concentration of twigs, and on the opposite side there was some brushwood. A peatland platform, in this context, would have been a simple construction of laid timber used to create a stable working or crossing surface over boggy ground, a practical solution in a landscape where the ground itself could not be trusted underfoot. Taken together, the timbers, the pointed end, and the brushwork all pointed in the same direction, towards the remnants of just such a structure. The find was recorded by Archaeological Development Services and reported by Dunne in 1999.