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Hatfield Moor was one of the earliest foci for peat formation. The site was constructed during a period of environmental transformation, where evidence from the coleopteran analyses demonstrated the site was built at a time of increasingly wet and acidic conditions. Modelling produced by Chapman and Geary (2014) illustrate the trackway was built across and into a pool that marks the earliest known area of wetland development, at the northernmost edge of Lindholme Island. Where evidence also shows the
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considered in a state of moderate decay with a preserved inner core but softer decayed outer layers. The assessment demonstrated the wood had lost elasticity and species identification was impossible on a large number of samples indicating the wood had undergone severe decay and biodeteriation resulting in the loss of cellulose and sugar molecules from the cell walls.
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At the time of the condition assessment the soil was recorded to be acidic above and below the track, with high organic content and low levels of nitrate with sulphides, sulphates and sulphur present in low concentrations. The availability of the last three substrates evidenced the conditions around
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The trackway consist of 50m of timber trackway leading north from
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It was during the time the timber trackway was built that the local environment began to change. Previous paleo-environmental studies on the moor indicate peat growth began around 3000BC. The radiocarbon date from the east of the site of 5470-5220 cal. BC is the earliest available on
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