Local history trip to Stone Age sites

16th October 2025

One of the ways we help the children to learn more and remember more is by helping the children make links through activities outside of the classroom as well as our usual lessons.  In our history topic about the Stone Age the children have made Stone Age houses outside, created their own Stonehenges from classroom objects, had a chance to handle and draw artefacts including flint tools and objects made of antler as well as visiting an archeological dig site on Holy Island.  This week we visited the replica woodhenge at Maelmin in Milfield so that the children could get an understanding of the layout of henges and also consider why Milfield was an attractive settlement site for people of the late Stone Age.

After that, we went to the Duddo stone circle which was created about 4000 years ago.  The children investigated the layout of the stones using compasses and they also investigated which markings on the stones were from erosion and which may be human made including a hunt for cup and ring marks.  It was very interesting and humbling to think we were standing in a place created so long ago in our local area.