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Avebury Stone Circle

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...

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

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

TTS school suppliers sell various stone age props, including a smart replica hafted hand-axe which is a bargain at around £10. It is...

Prepare and host a stone age party. Costume - Everyone to paint their faces and bodies with red ochre (or facepaint). Do geometric lines,...

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...

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,...

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

March 2020: We went to Cresswell Crags to see the cave art. We did two tours, the Ice Age life one and the cave art one itself, then...

February 2020 We started our hopefully epic five-year mission with a gentle introduction and a soft bridge in from the extinction of the...

A BBC documentary series presented by Neil Oliver. There are four hour-long episodes, which cover the Ice Age, Mesolithic, Neolithic and...

This is one of a set of four short books set in the Stone Age by Horrible Histories author Terry Deary. The Great Storm is set in Skara...

This is one of a set of four short books set in the Stone Age by Horrible Histories author Terry Deary. The Great Flood is set just as...

This is one of a set of four short books set in the Stone Age by Horrible Histories author Terry Deary. The Great Cave deals with...

I bought this book partly because it is commonly used in schools as part of the KS2 "Stone Age to Iron Age" module.

This is a very accessible book written in a semi-cartoon format with lots of humour and asides. The main story is a discussion of stone...