A timber trackway was typically used as the shortest route between two places in a bog or peatland and have been built for thousands of years as a means of getting between two points. Timber trackways have been identified in archaeological finds in Neolithic

Neolithic

The Neolithic Age, Era, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 9500 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It is traditionally considered as the last part of the Stone Age...

 England, dating to 500 years before Stonehenge

Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...

. Radiocarbon methods dates them to be about 6,000 years old.

See also

• Sweet Track
  Sweet Track
  The Sweet Track is an ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England. It was built in 3807 or 3806 BC and has been claimed to be the oldest road in the world. It was the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe until the 2009 discovery of a 6,000 year-old trackway in Belmarsh Prison...
  
   - one of the oldest engineered roads discovered and the oldest timber trackway discovered in Northern Europe
  Northern Europe
  Northern Europe is the northern part or region of Europe. Northern Europe typically refers to the seven countries in the northern part of the European subcontinent which includes Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Finland and Sweden...
  
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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?