The Two Iron Age Wooden Trackways XIV(Bou) and XV(Bou) in the Raised Bog of Southeast Drenthe (The Netherlands)

In the raised bog of Southeast Drenthe, a part of the Bourtanger Moor, six prehistoric wooden trackways have been found, of which two can be dated to the Iron Age. The trackways were built on an ombrogenous peat-bog surface with different types of hummock-hollow systems. XV(Bou), the northern plank footpath near Bargeroosterveld, made of oak, is dated to 530+40 BC. It probably crossed the entire raised bog (c. 12 km), and shortly after its construction it was intentionally destroyed. It is supposed that after a bog burst, dated to c. 500 BC, the peat-bog surface was too dangerous to pass across. XIV(Bou), the hurdle trackway near Emmerschans, dated to 170+50 BC, is constructed of wattlework of willow on a…