Timber trackway
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The Sweet Track (of which this is a replica) is an example of Neolithic engineering of a timber trackway, 6000 years old. An elevated footpath that ran for almost 2 km across the Somerset levels.
A timber trackway is a simple raised wooden walkway used as the shortest route between two places in a bog or peatland. They have been built for thousands of years as a means of getting between two points.[1][2] Timber trackways have been identified in archaeological finds in Neolithic England, dating to 500 years before Stonehenge. Radiocarbon methods date them to be about 6,000 years old.
See also
- Boardwalk
- Corduroy road
- Duckboards
- Marsden Matting - a 20th-century equivalent for airport runways
- Plank road
- Post Track
- Sweet Track - one of the oldest engineered roads discovered and the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe.
- Ancient trackway
- Trackway
References
External links
- Neolithic wooden trackways and bog hydrology
- Timber features - trackways and logboats
- Digging a medieval trackway in ceredigion
- A medieval timber trackway and industrial complex at llangynfelyn, Cors Fochno
- Timber trackway 500 years older than Stonehenge found by archaeologists
- Timber structure older than Stonehenge found: Radiocarbon dating shows London platform is about 6,000 years old
- London's Earliest Timber Structure Found During Belmarsh Prison Dig
- A prehistoric timber trackway
- London's Oldest "Boardwalk" Found?
- Medieval trackway and Roman smelting?
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