[Stones] Stonehenge then and now

[Andy Burnham]

Here's a photo of Stonehenge from that very year, you can see the wooden
props:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=14116&orderby=


Gerald Ponting wrote:
> " .... 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."
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> - 'Introduction to Field Archaeology as illustrated by Hampshire' by J
> P Williams-Freeman 1915
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> Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose !
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> Gerald Ponting
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