At the end of February, there was a confluence of birthdays. To celebrate, I organized a field trip. In the Oxfordshire and Wiltshire counties, there are dozens of stone circles, barrows (long graves), and man made hills (yes, they really look different). AND they are several thousand years old (seriously, like '5000 years old' old). Far beyond mere Stonehenge, there are many accessible and roughly intact stone circle, many of them linked in a way that they were only discovered with aerial photography.
A group of 8 intrepid explorers were rounded up (of 5 nationalities: Hungarian, New Zealand, American, Italian, and English - the last to interpret and speak with the locals) and we found not only the above mentioned types of sights but also the 'famous' Bourton-on-the-Water model village (1/9 scale village). And as one of the Kiwis pointed out, the scale of the village had a scaled scale version of it (1/9 scale, 1/81 scale, ....ad infinitum...). Neato!
Avebury, where the stone circle goes around the entire village. You can walk around and touch the stones. Most of them, as you can see by comparison with the people in the picture, are quite large.
We also saw White Horses carved into the sides of mountains:
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