Attraction Review

Burgh Castle Roman Fort

Burgh Castle Roman Fort is a free-to-access English Heritage site, run in association with Norfolk Archaeological Trust. The site...

The perfect place to recap everyday life in Prehistory up to around 500AD!

Attraction review. We booked in advance due to coronavirus.

Near Stonehenge

Near Stonehenge - possibly the "life" counterpart to Stonehenge's "death" site. Also English Heritage. This is the place with the...

Run by English Heritage (although the land around in National Trust and National Trust membership also gets you in free) - the stones...

Five Bronze Age round barrows at the start of the Ridgeway path. Now just grassy mounds in a field...

Another henge site near Avebury, possibly associated with the remaining stone ring. Sadly the stones from the Sanctuary were removed in...

A massive long barrow that you can go inside to see the chambers. Park in a lay-by and walk up a hill to find it in the middle of a...

A big artificial hill the size and date of the Pyramids. Why? Who knows!

The only stone circle with a village built inside it! There isn’t any “access” as such, you go to the village of Avebury and walk around...

The Ridgeway Path is a footpath which is part of an ancient trackway that goes roughly from Avebury in Wiltshire to somewhere near Bury...

The Uffington White Horse is thought to be a late Bronze Age/early Iron Age chalk figure, the only one of the many local chalk horses to...

Wayland's Smithy is a free-to-enter English-Heritage-run Neolithic Long Barrow on the Ridgeway foothpath, located very close (about half...

Covid-19 led to some changes of plan from our original schedule for 2020! February 2020 was not a good time to begin a project based on...

A review of the facilities at Cresswell Crags

Our first day trip was a visit to the Ice Age animatronic attraction at West Midlands Safari Park, to set the scene around the first...