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The Sweet Track is an ancient trackway, or causeway, in the Somerset Levels, England, named after its finder, Ray Sweet. It was built in 3807 BC and is the second-oldest timber trackway discovered in
Part of the Sweet Track oak causeway, British Museum
The Sweet Track was found in the Somerset Levels
A polished jadeitite axe head from the Museum of Toulouse
Diagram showing a cross section of the Sweet Track
Somerset Levels
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The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, England, running south from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills.
Sweet Track
…The Sweet Track is an ancient trackway, or causeway, in the Somerset Levels, England, named after its finder, Ray Sweet. It was built in 3807 BC (determined using dendrochronology – tree-ring dating) and is the second-oldest…
The Somerset Levels, seen from Glastonbury Tor
Glastonbury Tor
The River Brue in an artificial channel draining farmland near Glastonbury
Greylake sluice on King's Sedgemoor Drain