Editing Boardwalk (section)

==History==
[[File:Swampy But Pretty Bog In Fiordland NZ.jpg|thumb|right|A typical nature boardwalk, carrying walkers over [[wetlands]] on the [[Milford Track]], [[New Zealand]]]]
An early example is the [[Sweet Track]] that [[Neolithic]] people built in the [[Somerset levels]], England, around 6000 years ago.<ref Name="Current_Archaeology_somerset-levels">{{cite journal|last=Brunning|first=Richard|title=The Somerset Levels|pages=139–143|volume=XV (4)|issue=172 (Special issue on Wetlands)|journal=Current Archaeology|date=February 2001}}</ref> This track consisted mainly of planks of [[oak]] laid end-to-end, supported by crossed pegs of [[ash tree|ash]], oak, and [[Tilia|lime]], driven into the underlying peat.<ref name="bm">{{cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/s/section_of_the_sweet_track.aspx|title=1986,1201.1–27 Sweet Track exhibition highlight|publisher=[[British Museum]]|access-date=19 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429101940/https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/s/section_of_the_sweet_track.aspx|archive-date=29 April 2011}}</ref>

The [[Wittmoor bog trackway]] is the name given to each of two prehistoric [[plank road]]s, or boardwalks, trackway No. I being discovered in 1898 and trackway No. II in 1904<ref>The numbering of the trackways No. I for the younger northern one and No. II for the older southern one follows the local archive file of Archaeological Museum of Hamburg corresponding to early publications, in contrast to that Schindler uses a different numbering in his publication.</ref> in the ''Wittmoor'' [[bog]] in northern [[Hamburg]], Germany. The trackways date to the 4th and 7th century AD, both linked the eastern and western shores of the formerly inaccessible, swampy bog. A part of the older trackway No. II dating to the period of the [[Roman Empire]] is on display at the permanent exhibition of the [[Archäologisches Museum Hamburg|Archaeological Museum Hamburg]] in [[Harburg, Hamburg|Harburg borough, Hamburg]].<ref>Topic Mobility, Show case no. 80.</ref><ref name="Articus">{{cite book | last1 =Articus | first1 =Rüdiger  | last2 =Brandt | first2 =Jochen | last3 =Först | first3 =Elke | last4 =Krause | first4 =Yvonne | last5 =Merkel | first5 =Michael | last6 =Mertens | first6 =Kathrin | last7 =Weiss | first7 =Rainer-Maria | title =Archaeological Museum Hamburg Helms-Museum: A short guide to the Tour of the Times | series = Archaeological Museum Hamburg publication - Helms-Museum  | volume =103 | date =2013 | location = Hamburg | pages =108 | isbn =978-3-931429-24-9 }}</ref>