Measuring just over a metre in length, less than a metre wide, and barely more than a centimetre deep at its thickest, the deposit is modest in scale. What distinguishes it is the toolmarks left on much of the wood, marks that indicate the hazel was cut and shaped by human hands before being laid into the peat.

Hazel was a material of considerable practical value in early Irish wetland construction. Wattling, the weaving of thin hazel rods into panels or platforms, was a common technique for building pathways, causeways, and trackways across boggy ground, as well as for reinforcing the edges of crannogs, which are artificial or modified island settlements built in lakes and marshes. The toolmarks here suggest the brushwood was deliberately worked, though the surviving deposit is too small and fragmentary to determine with confidence what kind of structure it once belonged to. Peatlands are unusually effective at preserving organic material that would decay almost anywhere else, which is precisely why finds like this survive at all, and why Irish bogs have yielded so much evidence of prehistoric and early medieval activity that has long since vanished from drier ground.