Hämeen Härkätie

The Oxen Road links two major Iron Age settlement areas in Finland, the valley of the Aurajoki river and the Lake Vanaja region of Häme.

Vanaja region was one of the main areas in Finland in prehistoric times to acquire articles for export, such as furs and hides.

The term occurs mainly in Häme at the far end of the road in folk poetry of the road-side parishes.

The folk poetry in Finland proper exclude the term "Oxen road" with some exceptions in the environments of the Halikonlahti bay in present-day Salo.

At the time the road was 162 kilometers long and the route started from the Aura river valley and continued via villages of Lieto, Tarvasjoki, Marttila, Koski, Somero, Tammelan Letku, Tammelan Porras and Renko continuing through sparsely populated uplands of Tammela to Häme Castle.

The section of the road in Lieto is a road museum and therefore remains unpaved. The rock in the background is a site of an ancient hill fort, the Old Castle of Lieto .