Stonehenge
Ancient monument in England
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| March 2025 | English Heritage announced planning permission for a 'Learning Centre' and 'Neolithic classroom' near the visitor facilities, scheduled to open in autumn 2026. |
| August 2024 | Researchers from Curtin University published research in Nature identifying the origin of the Stonehenge Altar Stone as the Orcadian Basin in northeast Scotland, approximately 700 km from its current location. |
| July 2024 | A further legal challenge was made in the High Court against the road tunnel. |
| July 2024 | Incoming Labour government announced the tunnel would 'not move forward'. |
| June 19 2024 | Climate protesters from Just Stop Oil sprayed orange cornflour powder paint on three standing stones. Activists Niamh Lynch and Rajan Naidu were arrested. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the act as a 'disgraceful act of vandalism'. English Heritage investigated and found no visible damage to the stones. |
| February 2024 | High Court in London rejected a fresh bid by campaigners to stop construction of the road tunnel. |
| July 2023 | Despite previous legal challenges, the Transport Secretary Mark Harper approved plans for the road tunnel. |
| July 2023 | Department for Transport approved plans for a road tunnel, despite previous legal challenges. |
| May 2023 | A replica of Stonehenge was created using over 400,000 Lego bricks. |
| 2022 | Stonehenge was illuminated to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II during her Platinum Jubilee, showcasing different aspects of her personality and reign. |
| 2022 | The National Heritage Lottery Fund (NHLF) granted funds to the National Trust to acquire an additional 170 hectares of the Stonehenge Landscape, continuing the grassland reversion scheme. |
| January 2022 | Archaeologists announced the discovery of thousands of prehistoric pits around Stonehenge through an electromagnetic induction field survey, with some pits dating back approximately 10,000 years and containing hunting tools. |
| February 2021 | Archaeologists discovered extensive Neolithic and Bronze Age artifacts during excavations for a proposed highway tunnel near Stonehenge, including Bronze Age graves, late Neolithic pottery, and a C-shaped enclosure. |
| November 2020 | Approval announced for a four-lane tunnel to take traffic below the Stonehenge site, with mixed support from archaeologists, environmentalists, and local stakeholders. |
| July 2020 | A study led by David Nash of the University of Brighton conclusively identified the origin of Stonehenge's large sarsen stones as West Woods near Marlborough, Wiltshire, using chemical analysis of a core sample originally extracted in 1958. |
| 2019 | Evidence of Megalithic quarrying was discovered at Welsh quarries, confirming that the bluestone was deliberately quarried by humans rather than transported by glacial action. |
| 2018 | A strontium content study of bones revealed that many individuals buried around the time of construction had likely originated near the bluestone source in Wales. |
| September 13 2018 | DJs Paul Oakenfold and Carl Cox performed a silent disco trance music set at Stonehenge for a small crowd of 50 people, with the site illuminated by multicoloured lighting. |
| 2017 | Excavations by Professor Parker Pearson at Waun Mawn began, suggesting a potential origin for Stonehenge's bluestone circle with similar size and solstice orientation. |
| 2013 | Archaeological team led by Mike Parker Pearson excavated over 50,000 cremated bone fragments from 63 individuals, originally buried in the Aubrey holes. Analysis revealed an almost equal number of men, women, and children, with evidence suggesting bluestones from Wales were used as grave markers. |
| December 2013 | New visitor centre designed by Denton Corker Marshall opened to the public. |
| June 2013 | The A344 road was closed to begin removal and replacement with grass. |
| 2011 | Discovery of a megalithic bluestone quarry at Craig Rhos-y-felin near Crymych in Pembrokeshire, providing the most likely source for some of Stonehenge's stones. |
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