Handful of ticketholders will be selected at random for up-close visits to ancient site throughout AugustTrips to Stonehenge can be a little hectic. Tens of thousands of people turn up to celebrate summer and winter solstices...
Read MoreCampaigners have been fighting proposals to build traffic tunnel under the world heritage site since 1994A controversial plan to build a tunnel under the Stonehenge site has been officially cancelled after millions were spent on...
Read MoreIsotopes shows animal began life in Wales, adding weight to theory cattle used in hauling stones across countryA cow’s tooth from a jawbone deliberately placed beside the entrance to Stonehenge at the Neolithic monument’s very...
Read MoreThe alter stone, which we now know is from Scotland, may have been a gift or marker of political allianceFive thousand years after the first monument was created at Stonehenge, it continues to give up dramatic new secrets – such...
Read MoreEnclosure older than Salisbury monument found under late novelist’s garden is given heritage protectionWhen the author Thomas Hardy was writing Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 1891, he chose to set the novel’s dramatic conclusion...
Read MoreMonument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populationsFor more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of the stones at Stonehenge...
Read MoreInfrastructure spending cuts raise waiting list concerns, while end to Stonehenge road project called ‘joyous’The pause by Rachel Reeves on plans to build 40 new hospitals “must be as short as possible” to deliver on pledges to...
Read MoreChancellor expected to announce cuts and delays to some projects as Labour tries to fill £20bn shortfall in financesRachel Reeves will on Monday detail the results of an audit of the country’s finances, setting out plans to...
Read MoreEvent takes place days after ancient monument in Wiltshire targeted by Just Stop Oil protestersSummer solstice – in picturesAbout 15,000 people greeted the sun with cheers, smiles and prayers as it rose over Stonehenge for the...
Read MoreRishi Sunak failure to commit to HS2’s northern leg has raised concerns about the future of several large-scale transport projectsThe future of several prestige transport projects, including a planned £9bn road...
Read MoreAfter 180 years, flowers and floral sculptures make a return to the famous stone circle this weekendWith the autumn equinox gone and the winter months not far away, Salisbury Plain can take on a rather chilly, sombre air.But not...
Read MoreRing of hollows has been called the largest prehistoric structure found in Britain, but some were scepticalWhen a series of deep pits were discovered near the world heritage site of Stonehenge last year, archaeologists excitedly...
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