In the early fourth millennium BC the track was built between an island at Westhay and a ridge of high ground at
The … 展开

The track was discovered in 1970 during peat excavations and is named after its finder, Ray Sweet. The company for which he worked, E. J. Godwin, sent part of a plank from the track to John Coles, an assistant lecture… 展开

The community that constructed the trackway were Neolithic farmers who had colonised the area around 3900 BC, and the evidence suggests that they were, by the time of construction, well organised and settled. Before th… 展开

Built in 3807 or 3806 BC, the track was a walkway consisting mainly of planks of oak laid end-to-end, supported by crossed pegs of ash, oak, and lime, driven into the underlying peat. The planks, which were up to 40 centimetre… 展开

Most of the track remains in its original location, which is now within the Shapwick Heath biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserve. Following purchase of land by the National Heritage Memori… 展开

• Coles, John; Coles, Bryony (1986). Sweet Track to Glastonbury: The Somerset Levels in Prehistory. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-39022-1.
• Coles, Bryony; Coles, John (1980). Prehistory of the Somerset Le… 展开