Well
done to the children in Year 3 for the interest and enthusiasm they showed
during our two visits to the Ridgeway today:
We went to the site of the "Viking Massacre" that we have been learning about, and looked at the new display boards and the old Roman Road.
We went to the Culliford Tree Barrow. This is an ancient Bronze-age Barrow that was also used as a burial place for the Anglo-Saxons about 1000 years ago. It is likely to have been around here that the Anglo-Saxons of the local area gathered for meetings and for special events (like deciding what to do with 54 captured Viking warriors, for example). It was thought to be a place of magic! The ancient people believed that faeries lived inside and that music could be heard coming from the ground! (We didn't hear any though).
We went to the site of the "Viking Massacre" that we have been learning about, and looked at the new display boards and the old Roman Road.
We went to the Culliford Tree Barrow. This is an ancient Bronze-age Barrow that was also used as a burial place for the Anglo-Saxons about 1000 years ago. It is likely to have been around here that the Anglo-Saxons of the local area gathered for meetings and for special events (like deciding what to do with 54 captured Viking warriors, for example). It was thought to be a place of magic! The ancient people believed that faeries lived inside and that music could be heard coming from the ground! (We didn't hear any though).
We
had a quick look at the 7 Bronze Age Barrows that surround the Came Down Golf
Club. Our thanks to the manager for allowing us to visit.
And an extra big “Thank you!” to Steve Wallis (Dorset County
Archaeologist) who gave us such interesting lessons in the classroom and
who came with us on the visits today.
DM
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