Holly 12, Avebury and Stonehenge

Tuesday 7^th June

Today we went to a really amazing place called Avebury stone circles.

It is amazing because there are lots of really really big stones and some are about 20 tons and one was exactly 100 tons.  We went on a tour and the lady showed us a rock that had a little seat on it and some people say that if you run around it 100 times and then sit on the seat smoke will come out of a hole in the rock and you’ll get a visit from the devil and that is why they call it the devils chair.

The Devil's chair is the stone on the left

The tour was great and one of the stones looked like a rabbit but if you look it the other way you see the shape of an ugly frog. Also we went on a walk up to see a hill called Silbury Hill but we didn’t climb it.

It is a man made hill.

Wednesday 8^th June

Today we went to a really fascinating place called Stonehenge

which is a place where there are lot of big stones. We all got audio players that gold you bits of interesting facts. On top of some of the stones there were other ones put on top like a bridge. 

This place was made in 3500BC but back there there were no such things as diggers, bobcats or any other things like that.  So how did they get those big stones standing on top of each other?  Well it still remains a mystery.  
There was also a museum that had lots of real bones and an almost full skeleton and it was creepy.

At stonehenge there replicas of huts.  

They were made of sticks and mud and inside there was a bed made out sticks and logs. In one of the huts there was a blanket on the bed and that one was the comfiest.

 Inside there was also a shelf made out of more sticks for putting their pots on and there was a dip in the middle where they would have had a fire place.  

They made the roof out of 4 long thick sticks going up into a cone shape and then they used thinner sticks that were not straight and weaved them through and then covered it with hay to stop the rain coming in.

There were 2 beds in each hut.  


Also there was a big replica of a rock that you could try to pull.  You pressed a button and pulled on a rope and it told you how many more people you would need to get the rock to move.  I tried it with mum and we would have needed 95 more people. It was really heavy.