Wooden road built almost 6,000 years ago (3 photos)

Interesting facts about one of the most ancient roads in the history of mankind.





Sweet Track is a Neolithic wooden road 5830 years. Located in England. In 1970, peat was mined here and accidentally hit the trail. Nothing suggestive of sweetness or sugar in these places are not even close. Named after the discoverer, Ray Sweet.

This trail was part of a whole road network. Ancient people built it to provide a reliable path through the marshy terrain. It was the swamp that helped to conserve and preserve this an ancient road in such perfect condition.

The design consisted of crossbars superimposed on each other. on top of each other and sunk into the ground. The crossbars were cut from ash, oak and lindens. And on top of them was an oak flooring.



The width of the boards is up to 40 cm, the thickness is 5 cm, and the length is 3 meters. They were cut from young trees whose diameter did not exceed one meter. Of the tools, only stone axes were used, and also wooden wedges and hammers. All materials were produced in another place, since there was a swamp and there were no suitable trees. AND were brought here. The work was done with care and diligence.



Stone axes, hammers, knives and pottery were found near the road.

The road network is impressive, given the few population of that era. The length of one preserved road exceeds 2 kilometers.

Sweet track was needed to cross the swamp and get to islands. The road was used for 10 years and then abandoned. In a swamp The water level rose and it became useless.