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A year at Stonehenge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mike Pitts
Mike Pitts*
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*11 Silverless Street, Marlborough, SN8 1JQ, UK
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You didn't need to be an archaeologist in 2008 to know that things were happening at Stonehenge. For years controversial plans to improve the Stonehenge environs (costed at £600m) had dominated media and much academic debate, but in November 2007 the British government announced that it couldn't afford them (Pitts 2008a). The plans were dropped (much cheaper changes are now being implemented to make Stonehenge look nice for the 2012 Olympics: English Heritage 2008). There are new broadcasts and press stories featuring the stones every year, but 2008 was different. As road protests diminished, real archaeologists took the stage.

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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 319 , March 2009 , pp. 184 - 194
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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