Bronze Age Timber (5th Feb)

One of the perks of volunteering at an Iron Age farm, a gift of Bronze Age (roughly 3,500 years old) oak timber from Testwood Lake, Southampton. Well, it's most probably oak although I think the bridge from which this apparently came was made up of other woods too.

I've been researching here. http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/book/export/html/354

"While carrying out what they call a watching brief, staff from Wessex Archaeology came across fascinating evidence of early society, including part of the earliest bridge ever definitely identified in England, dating to the Middle Bronze Age, c1,500BC."

One man, who is a bronze metalworker at the Farm, apparently got the wood from the excavation and he gave them to a volunteer. This volunteer shared some of it and that's how I acquired them. I can only obviously take their word that it is how old they say it is, but I believe them. I can't be sure if it's oak though, as oak's my second favourite tree, but oh well. Remarkable that wood can survive for so long in the right conditions.