Missing part of Stonehenge returned 60 years on
Source: BBC
Missing part of Stonehenge returned 60 years on
8 May 2019
A missing piece of Stonehenge has been returned to the site 60 years after it was taken.
A metre-long core from inside the prehistoric stone was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958.
No-one knew where it was until Robert Phillips, 89, who was involved in those works, decided to return part of it.
English Heritage, which looks after Stonehenge, hopes the sample might now help establish where the stones originally came from.
In 1958 archaeologists raised an entire fallen trilithon - a set of three large stones consisting of two that would have stood upright, with the third placed horizontally across the top.
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The stone samples were removed during archaeological work in 1958 (Historic England)