setting sun

 

the passing of clouds

 

a walk into history

Yesterday we pass through Avebury in Wiltshire, en route to see two of their famous neighbouring neolithic structures. The first is Silbury Hill  and the second, West Kennet Long Barrow.

They are both staggeringly impressive and the work required to construct them must have been immense. 

The day is bright but cold, the wind chilling us to the bone as we climb the slope toward the Long Barrow. Silbury Hill begins to shrink in the landscape as we clamber up toward the burial site.  The sky is full of bleak scudding clouds.

At last the Long Barrow lies before us. We enter its burial chambers and are connected through the millenia to the very roots of British history.