The journey of a painting in four stages. It was painted in oils and executed over four days. Long before Screwfix tools were made here, ten hundred thousand years ago. Tools to hunt and fish, their discovery heralded other ages. Around 4,000 BC the Neolithic peoples grew wheat and barley and making pots .
Long barrows like Adam’s Grave are found on the northern escarpment. More adventurous building followed, ring banks and ditch monuments and stone circles: Avebury and Stonehenge are just down the road.
So much! The Early Bronze age 2300-1500 heralded the arrival of more extensive metal work and pottery, daggers and jewellery. And soon after they added fields and houses and hill forts for protection. The modern age. It was 800 BC and the advent of iron, bronze’s harder sibling. Several Iron Age hill forts overlook the vale.
The boys from Rome marched in, 43 AD, and stays for four hundred years. A long way from Lazio. Then followed a period of back and forth, Germanic invaders from the North Sea. Eventually Anglo-Saxons settled here. Well until 1066 and all that. You’re caught up 😉