Hello
One of the things I love doing in the UK, especially since I have moved to the West Country, is to visit ancient structures. Everyone has heard of Stonehenge but there are, in fact, structures thousands of years older that you can visit for free and there will be no crowds. Most people don't even know they exist but they do, you can find them and they are older than the pyramids.
I speak of barrows and specifically long barrows. Barrows are tombs. Most barrows are just slightly weird looking hills that look like this
They are man made but most people don't give them a second look or know anything about them. But they aren't that fun to visit because they are basically just a hill - unless you fancy a walk in the country anyway.
Long barrows are the same thing but you can go inside the tomb!
This is Stoney Littleton Longbarrow
This is West Kennet longbarrow
You have to stoop a bit but you can get inside and look around this building from 5,500 years ago.
They can be found in many places in the UK but these two are near where I live in Somerset (not far from Stonehenge)
Stoney Littleton is lesser known and smaller but very close to it are some old World War II machine gun pilboxes which are cool to visit on the same trip (ten minute country walk between them).
West Kennet is larger and close to other ancient sites like Silbury Hill (a huge hill type barrow), shitloads of standing stones and the village of Avebury, which stands in the middle of HUGE stone circle - very weird place.
Also in the area you have Stonehenge, the beautiful Georgian city of Bath, Glastonbury (well worth a visit to walk up the Tor and for Arthurian woo) and my home town of Frome which has some of the prettiest medieval streets in the country
This is the land of ancient peoples, from the barrow culture to the culture that built stonehenge to the ancient Britons, Arthurian myth and legend and Alfred the Great who fought off the vikings and the battle of Essenden, said to have taken place near here - Bratton Camp Hill fort and home of one of the many white horses in the area
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