The Corlea Trackway, An Elevated Wooden Road Almost 2000 Years Old Was Discovered Inward Ireland, Made Of Planks From Oak Too Every Bit Birch Trees
a modern version of it
Raised wooden roads were usually used every fleck a agency for people to cross bogs inward add-on to marshy land.
The Corlea Trackway, is a corduroy route made of dissever planks that had been seat on fall out of raised rails.
Corlea is the largest togher discovered inwards Europe, spanning close ane kilometer inward add-on to is close iii inward add-on to a half meters wide. Three hundred large oak trees were felled to exercise the planks inward add-on to close the same full of birch was needed for the rails. This equates to close a K wagon-loads of construction material.
The Corlea Trackway leads to a little isle that was excavated inwards 1957. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 minute togher close ane kilometer long was on the other side of the island.
Like close all trackways, it had sunk under its possess weight into the bog inwards less than a decade, where it was preserved by times the anaerobic conditions. To date, afterward beingness excavated, lonely close 18 meters of the brain re-create trackway however survives inwards a higher identify body of water inward add-on to plough over notice alive seen at a visitor grab inwards Kenagh
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/04/21/the-2000-year-old-corlea-trackway-a-wooden-road-in-ireland/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corlea_Trackway
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