[Stones] Stonehenge then and now

[Gerald Ponting]

" .... the sense of solitary grandeur which arose as one came slowly up across the wide deserted plain to stand alone beneath the huge trilithons, is a thing of the past. The military camps, the motors and the constant traffic along the dusty road, the wire enclosure, necessary as one must acknowledge it to be, and above all, the offensive pay-shed, so placed as to spoil and vulgarise the approach by its natural avenues, have robbed the temple of all its old romance."    
[Footnote]  "(The pay-shed) could surely have been put a quarter of a mile away near the junction of the roads. Surely, too, it has collected enough shillings to pay for setting up the shaky stones in concrete, and doing away with those hideous timber props."

- 'Introduction to Field Archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire' by J P Williams-Freeman 1915

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose !

Gerald Ponting
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