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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic 3240 BCE · Late Neolithic Somerset Levels farmers
Neolithic timber trackway (3240 BCE, 2 km) at Meare Heath, longest Neolithic timber structure in Britain, successor to Sweet Track.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age, British Middle–Late (Hod Hill + Glastonbury ware) · Iron Age Somerset wetland Britons (Durotriges–Dumnonii border)
250 BCE–50 BCE Iron Age peat islands—90 wattle houses on Somerset artificial crannogs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age British Late (Glastonbury tradition) · Somerset Levels Iron Age Britons
300–50 BCE fen twin villages—28 Iron Age houses on Meare Pool artificial islets.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
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.
