Corlea Trackway

An Iron Age bog road built from oak planks around 148 BC, discovered during peat harvesting and now preserved beneath a purpose-built visitor centre in the midland bogs. A stretch of the original timber trackway is displayed indoors under controlled humidity, one of the largest such structures found in Europe. The precise felling date, read from tree rings, ties it to a period of ritual activity. Guided tours explain how the road may have served a ceremonial rather than purely practical purpose across the treacherous wetland.