My first visit on a beautiful March day. Found through curiosity a good approach to the site – when coming down the Ridgeway from Uffington castle there are woods either side of the path, once you have crossed the final road before the Wayland’s site – jump over the ditch and go into the woods on your left – there is a great straight avenue of trees to follow and the site can be seen appearing to your right – go back over the ditch through the gate and to the tomb
I checked out the parallell sides “trick” mentioned below – subtle, interesting
I particularly liked the sympathetic arrangement of trees around the tomb especially the four corner trees – if you go to the front and walk backwards the two back-end trees are framed nicely between the two front megaliths.
At the foot of one of the back-corner trees daffodils (I think) were coming up;
the dead are dead, but spring’s begun
the old make way for blooded young