Well I had sort of hoped we might make this detour on the way home, and I just might have printed out a few directions beforehand but sneaky and devious?
OK guilty as charged I guess!
For once a site that was quick and easy to find - find the co op in Pewsey, walk around the right hand side of the supermarket and follow the path by the stream just over the bridge and you find this....
A row of Sarsen stones which are rather out of place.
One with a hole through it ( shame someone though the black paint was necessary though)
and yet more built into the foundations of the local church.
So where did they come from? One internet site says they are the remains of a stone circle. Other commentators say there was never a stone circle here and they are the remains of an old Saxon church on top of which was built the current one.
Well more research needed I guess and even if they were never part of a circle they certainly look as if they might have been. I guess the truth will never be known unless some lucky find turns up the right old records should there be any.
And finally - a snatched photograph of another ancient or not landmark...
The Westbury White Horse. An 18CE addition to the Wiltshire landscape or early. Again no documentary evidence to support an earlier date.
The recent cleaning though has left it a bright sharp white against the background of the Bratton Hill fort - almost a cartoon cut out. It looked a lot softer beforehand.
