New Stone Age (Neolithic)

Book: The Stone Age Sentinel

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

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...

Grinding domesticated grain into flour was a big new development in the Neolithic, but leavening bread with yeast or baking soda (etc)...

July 2020: Day 3 of Prehistory Week. Stonehenge plus another site nearby (Woodhenge or Durrington)

Using a video from English Heritage, made a clay pot in geometric incised design.

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...

July 2020: Day two of our Prehistory week was doing Avebury Stone circle and the surrounding monuments, including Silbury Hill, West...

To represent the beginning of domestication of animals and full harvesting of wool rather than one off harvesting of sheepskin, this...

You can download an easy but very effective papercraft model of Stonehenge from the teacher's resource website Twinkl. The model consists...

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

July 2020: Day 1 of our Prehistory Week was travel with a stop-off at Uffington White Horse on our way to our first hotel in Marlborough,...