Waylands Smithy is a Neolithic chambered long barrow, part of the Severn-Cotswold group.  Built in two phases between 3590 and 3400 BC it was used as a burial site for a number of adults and children.  It is located beside The Ridgeway, an ancient trackway that runs for over 60 miles through Berkshire and Oxfordshire and links a number of ritual and burial sites and monuments.  It is associated with Wayland, a Saxon god of metal working and there is a legend that a horse left tethered overnight would be reshod by morning if a sum of money was left.