The future of the scheme to put a tunnel through the Stonehenge World Heritage Site is on shaky grounds, taking hits from all sides. The National Audit Office is looking into the financial benefits of the scheme, claiming that the benefits had been overestimated by Highways England based on a hypothetical situation which cannot be … Read more
As the Stonehenge tunnel plans reach their next stage of development, the National Infrastructure Planning have been asking for anyone who would like to register as an interested party to give their representative views on the plans so far. These representations have now been published and, with over 2,000 of them accepted (out of nearly … Read more
The monograph on Blick Mead, ‘Blick Mead: Exploring the first place in the Stonehenge Landscape’ has recently had a wonderful review by archaeological magazine Current Archaeology. You can find the full review on the Current Archaeology website here, we particularly like that they picked up on the community theme within the monograph; without the help … Read more
Blick Mead is once again on the front pages, but this time it is not for some amazing discovery but for the demolition of one. In 2017 the Blick Mead team carefully and systematically excavated a Mesolithic platform of flint cobbles under which they found, perfectly preserved, Auroch hoof prints in the clay. Aurochs were … Read more
We all know that it’s Christmas every day when you’re digging at Blick Mead; seeing those flint blades being unwrapped from their muddy wrappings can feel like Christmas morning. But what about those Mesolithic inhabitants of the site, what would they have been up to for Christmas 10,000 years ago. Well, with 8,000 years to … Read more
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