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Article: STONEHENGE'S 'SECRET' MAKEOVER; How it was rebuilt last century . . .and set in concrete.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- January 9, 2001
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Byline: LUCIE MORRIS
FOR a million visitors a year Stonehenge is a mystical experience; a trip 4,000 years back in time.
They marvel at the ancient technology which enabled the massive circle of Welsh bluestones to be erected on Salisbury Plain.
But they are not told that, without modern technology, the monument would have nowhere near its magnificence.
Neither the official English Heritage guide book or the audio tour available makes it clear that nearly every stone in Stonehenge has been moved in the last 100 years in a series of makeovers.
Brian Edwards, who is studying for a history doctorate at the University of the West ...