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Earthworks tagged “peat”

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork

Flag Fen Bronze Age Causeway

Bronze Age to Iron Age (~1500–300 BCE; causeway 1350–1150 BCE) · British Bronze Age (Deverel-Rimbury to Post-Deverel-Rimbury)

A 1-km line of 60,000 oak posts forming a causeway and platform across Flag Fen where Francis Pryor excavated systematic votive deposits: over 300 metalwork items deliberately broken (swords bent,…

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder

Sweet Track

Early Neolithic (~3807 BCE) · British Early Neolithic

The oldest engineered timber trackway in northern Europe, a 1.8-km raised walkway of oak planks pegged to transverse ash rails, dendro-dated to construction in the winter–spring of 3807 BCE.

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Flag Fen Bronze Age Causeway

Sweet Track