Stonehenge and Avebury!

Two more world heritage sites checked off the list! That brings me to 22 which is 1.7% of the world heritage sites…. I’m getting there! Stonehenge has always been a bucket list thing to see so I am soooooooo glad I got to see it. The Neolithic people might just be my favorite people from history. I love how mysterious things are. Of course we saw the huge stones but there was so much more to the site of stonehenge. About 500 years before the stones we’re placed there were earth works made in the ground. They made one long rectangle shape across acres of land and me and Dana think it was a landing strip. Maybe they had planes or maybe they had wings who knows! They also had mounds that people were buried in around the site. Avebury was another stone circle but this one was way bigger than stonehenge. It took us about 30 minutes to walk all the way around but here we got to go right up to the stones and could even touch them. My favorite fact from Avebury was hearing that early christians settled here and tried to bury the stones because of their pagan connections. The Neolithic people also build an enormous ditch outside the circle. I think maybe they filled it with water from a nearby river to move the stones around so they could place them in the circle. Today there is a town built right in the middle of the stone circle and it was super cute and just what I picture an English farm town to look like. Just outside we saw one last thing which was a white horse earth drawing. It was made by scraping away the top soil in the shape of a horse revealing the white chalk underneath. I thought this was Neolithic for a minute but turns out its 18th century.Læs mere