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I've just come across this from EH whilst doing a bit of surfing.

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/files/Learning/avebury_teachers_kit/investigate_avebury_henge_and_west_kennet_avenue.pdf

I don't know how long it's been available, maybe others will.

Cracking idea, get 'em young and make it interesting but it should be accurate I feel and not assume things.

On the first page they state: Henges are circular banks and
ditches, built for ceremonies about four or five thousand years ago.

Who says? It may well be true, but then again it may not!

Well they are banks and ditches. So I suppose you must be unhappy with the ceremonies bit. But ceremonies is quite a vague / all-encompassing kind of idea? Am I right in thinking that the insides of (ordinary) henges are usually very 'clean' with hardly any finds like wot you'd expect anywhere else? (I might be wrong) And they're not full of burials. And they're not usually places people lived (going by the finds). So isn't 'ceremonies' actually quite a good catch-all for whatever else you might do in them, presumeably something unusual or special? Even a football match you could call a ceremony if you stretched it far enough.

Sanctuary wrote:
I've just come across this from EH whilst doing a bit of surfing.

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/files/Learning/avebury_teachers_kit/investigate_avebury_henge_and_west_kennet_avenue.pdf

I don't know how long it's been available, maybe others will.

Cracking idea, get 'em young and make it interesting but it should be accurate I feel and not assume things.

On the first page they state: Henges are circular banks and
ditches, built for ceremonies about four or five thousand years ago.

Who says? It may well be true, but then again it may not!

Haha, it also has the barber surgeon being squashed too.

I like that, it's very good. I especially like the questions under Number 11 - let's face it, certain archaeologists have spent lifetimes trying to answer these (and are no nearer now!). And there's even a maths question (boo).

I quite fancy a "draw the Devil's Chair" competition. Perhaps a fun Megameet activity?