Wittemoor timber trackway

The Wittemoor timber trackway is a log causeway or corduroy road across a bog at Neuenhuntdorf, part of the Berne in the district of Wesermarsch in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Originating in the pre-Roman Iron Age, it is one of several such causeways which have been found in the North German Plain, particularly in the Weser-Ems region.

It ran across the Wittemoor bog, connecting the more elevated geest at Hude with the River Hunte.

They stood on either side of the trackway at the point where it crosses a stream, the male figure slotted into a plank, the female on a small mound.

Fire sites also on either side of the track, one at each end of the crossing, and stones and worked alder sticks around two simple cult poles immediately north of the female figure suggest that offerings were made there.

Reconstructed stretch of causeway, with reproductions of cult figurines on either side
Female (left) and male cult figurines