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Thread: People don't realise that the A303 is older than Stonehenge and probably the reason it's there in the first place!
Natural roads are one of the most important bits of visible human archaeology showing where people have chosen to travel for millenia.
The route of the A303 is thought to date back to at least 3000BC and parts of it were possibly made by the hooves of migrating reindeer.
The site of Stonehenge dates from a similar time with the stones being erected around 2500BC. The road is linked to the site from the start.
People may say that the road has changed and become busy which detracts from the view of the ancient monument.
But Stonehenge was re-built with cranes in the 1950s using concrete and guesswork! silentearth.org/restorations-a….
So as plans are laid to delete the ancient route and dig a destructive tunnel under the romantic idea of what Stonehenge might have been ...
... at a cost of £1.6bn - just remember that the road is the reason Stonehenge is there ... and think about what preservation is really for?
