Wittemoor timber trackway

The so-called boardwalk at the Witte Moor (Reg. No. XLII (IP) ) is a pre - historic and early historic corduroy road at New Hunt village, a suburb of Berne in the district of Weser march in Lower Saxony. The path was excavated in 1965 and 1970 and scientifically described. The boardwalk at the Witte Moor is a prehistoric archaeological sites of numerous boardwalks in the Low German lowlands, especially in the Weser- Ems region.

This stretching of the planks pathway were uncovered XLII (42 ) on which you found a total of six abstract wooden figures at various points. First, they found a pair of figures, presumably a male and female deity representing ( Anthropomorphic pile gods ), and is among the few preserved carvings from the Iron Age. The faceless pair was situated at the point where the boardwalk led across a ford. It is a thick from three to seven inches of oak planks worked out, highly stylized female (95 cm high) and a male (105 cm high) shape. Evidence such as careful landfill where conveyance of the way, suggest that it is a place of worship. The other four figures, including a beilförmiges structure, had been set up at ( coincidentally or not) defective putting away. However, we can not clarify whether it is plate or cult characters.

The running in the north-south boardwalk could be dated by dendrochronological investigations to the year 135 BC. He bridged the Witte Moor and created a connection between the Geest at Hude and the Hunte. Southern starting point of the path Bohlen was an Iron Age settlement, near a spring in the forest " Schnitthilgenloh " at Lintel. A portion of the screed path was reconstructed.

The oldest boardwalk / bridge (No. XXXI Pr ) proceeded in Campemoor at Damme in the district of Vechta through a forest and there was loud C14-dates 4835-4715 BC