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, taking in the Neolithic Long Barrow of Wayland's Smithy and the Iron Age chalk horse and adjacent hill fort. The iron age part of this was annoyingly out of sequence but it fitted much better on the approach to Wiltshire for us than at any other point, and the barrow at least was in the right place chronologically...
These three prehistoric sites are all pretty close to each other up a hill, connected by a well-used foot/bridlepath called the Ridgeway, which is in itself supposedly the oldest path in England and might have been created in the Iron Age to join East Anglia with the Avebury area. It is part of the Icknield Way, which was still listed as one of the four main roads across the country in the 1200s.
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