Time Team S05E02 · Bronze-Age Trackway - Greylake, Somerset

Air date: 1998-01-11 50m

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The team go to the Somerset levels in search of a 4,000-year-old wooden trackway. The quickest way to get across the marshes that used to exist here in the Bronze and Iron Ages was across wooden walkways. Now the team hope to find evidence of these footbridges.

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