This morning Mummy drove me to Avebury. It was a long way but it was OK because we listened to the music from Matilda very loudly all the way there.

Grandad Dennis had stayed over night after our visit to London yesterday and I played with him in the morning while Mummy packed all our camping things into the car.

Avenbury is a neolithic stone circle and it is huge.  The village of Avebury is inside the stone circle!  around the stone circle is a deep ditch that would have been all white with chalk in the past. Outside the ditch is a high bank that is made of the chalk dug out from the ditch.  Now the back has got grass growing all over it but you can see the chalk through the mud and grass.  Mummy and I walked up the bank and walked all around the bank to see the whole stone circle site. Lots of the stones are missing now as it is so old. In the past lots of the stones were removed or buried as people though god would be cross as they are not for worshipping him. One man died in the 14 century when one of the stones being pushed over to be buried fell on him. Archaeologists found his body and from the things in his pockets they think he was a barber.  People stopped pushing the stones over then as they were scared it would happen again!

The stones at Avebury as so huge! They are also very cool because you can touch them and climb on some of them where they have fallen over.

An archaeologist there said that they have looked at the soil under the stones and can tell from the soil when the stones were put there but seeing when the soil last saw sunlight.

There was a cool museum there too all about the neolithic places nearby and things that have been found there.

The stones are Sarsen stones like the big stones at Stonehenge. Mummy said about a mile away is a field where there are loads of sarsen stones lying about that were probably dropped there by a glacier in ice age times. She wanted to take me to see them but we ran out of time as we spent too long looking at the stone circle and the museum. Stoneage people probably moved the Avebury stones from a place like that in the past.