BREAKING!
Decision on the #StonehengeTunnel postponed.
“Following notification of a recent archaeological find within the World Heritage Site, the deadline for the decision is to be further extended to 13 November 2020.”
gov.uk/government/spe…
So no final decision tomorrow. The Government acknowledging - at last - that Stonehenge exists in the context of a landscape that is itself of immense archaeological significance. A budget shot to pieces.
I’m daring to hope for the best. #StonehengeTunnel
A reminder that the future of the Stonehenge landscape is not just an issue for Britain. As this excellent feature in @Forbes demonstrates, the eyes of the world are on Salisbury Plain. #StonehengeTunnel
https://t.co/QCsCQOF5RA
What seems (hopefully) to have changed the Government’s mind was the revelation last month that there were still finds to be made in the Stonehenge landscape: specifically, a series of shafts aligned to form a circle spanning 1.2 miles in diameter not far from Stonehenge.
Vincent Gaffney, who led the mapping of the giant circle of buried shafts, is - unsurprisingly - robust in his views on the #StonehengeTunnel: building it “would be an “act of monstrous vandalism” that would be hard to justify to generations to come.”
As @carltonreid says, “Pushing ahead with what many consider to be a historically-illiterate road-building scheme close to Stonehenge would be odd in the extreme, would shock people around the world, & would likely face massive protests long before the first diggers moved in.”
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