Year 3 visit some archaeological sites of the South Dorset Ridgeway

Interesting Ridgeway Visit

Well done to the children in Year 3 for the interest and enthusiasm they showed during our visits to the Ridgeway on Monday and Friday.

 

We had a quick look at the 7 Bronze Age Barrows that surround the Came Down Golf Club. Our thanks go to the manager for allowing us to visit.

 

We then went to the site of the "Viking Massacre" that we have been learning about, and looked at the new display boards.

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).

 

 Thank you to those parents who were able to come along for the morning and help on the visits.

An extra big “Thank you!” for Steve Wallis (county archaeologist) who gave us such interesting lessons in the classroom and who came with us on the visits .    

To view more photographs, please visit the Year 3 Class Gallery. 

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