What had surfaced was a togher, a type of wooden trackway built across boggy or waterlogged ground, constructed from a combination of roundwood poles, split timbers, and brushwood laid in carefully arranged layers to create a stable surface over unstable terrain. The exposed section measured just 1.6 by 1 metre, but even that small window was enough to reveal a deliberately engineered structure more than a metre wide.

The construction method is characteristic of what archaeologists classify as a class 3 togher. Longitudinal timbers, running along the direction of travel, were laid in parallel, with transverse brushwood and roundwood passing both beneath and above them to bind the whole thing together. The individual elements were described as quite substantial, with roundwood pieces measuring up to 8 centimetres in diameter. Around the edges, other brushwood pieces lay without any regular pattern, possibly displaced by the milling that had already disturbed the site before the remains were recorded. One detail stands out among the technical description: a large piece of brushwood with a chisel-pointed end, suggesting that at least some of the timbers were shaped and worked before being placed, rather than simply gathered and thrown down. The find was recorded by Jane Whitaker of Archaeological Development Services and published by Dunne in 1999.