«Breaking News» Road workers building tunnel beneath Stonehenge 'drill hole' in Salisbury Plain

Archaeologists are claiming road workers tunnelling beneath Stonehenge have drilled a hole in Salisbury Plain, the site where the UK's first hunter-gatherers lived at the end of the Ice Age, some 12,000 years ago. 

There are fears Highways England caused irreparable damage to the Mesolithic site when engineers monitoring water levels dug an 11ft deep bore hole through a prehistoric platform.

The alleged damage was done when gauges were being installed to monitor the water table at Blick Mead, a number of tepid springs in the grounds of Amesbury Abbey, in Wiltshire, considered the 'first place in Britain'.

There are fears Highways England caused irreparable damage to the Mesolithic site while trying to build a road tunnel to run under Stonehenge. The alleged damage was done when gauges were being installed to monitor the water table at Blick Mead, a number of tepid springs in the grounds of Amesbury Abbey, in Wiltshire, considered the 'first place in Britain'

Remnants from the Mesolithic period - from 8000 BC to 2,700 AD - offer scientists vital insights into the way hunter-gatherers lived during the period.

However damage to unique site could lower the water table, threatening any archaeology preserved in the waterlogged ground, says David Jacques, professor of archaeology at the University of Buckingham.

Among the finds in recent years is a carefully constructed stone platform on site of an extinct river which could have part of a pathway or jetty, as well as hoof prints of prehistoric cattle, known as aurochs.

Prof Jacques, who discovered the site 12 years ago, told the Daily Telegraph: 'This is a travesty. We took great care to excavate this stone platform as it was clearly put there to preserve the aurochs' footprint. 

'It may be that this explains why Stonehenge was built. These monster cows provided food for 300 people so were revered.'

Adding: 'There are thousands of years of history lying undisturbed in the water-logged ground. It's a miracle it has survived and would be a disaster if it was lost.' 

Highways England said: 'We are not aware of any damage being caused to archaeological layers.

'The works have been undertaken in a highly professional manner, with an archaeologist on site and with due care being exercised at all times.' 

WHO BUILT STONEHENGE?

Stonehenge was built thousands of years before machinery was invented. 

The heavy rocks weigh upwards of several tonnes each.

Some of the stones are believed to have originated from a quarry in Wales, some 140 miles (225km) away from the Wiltshire monument.

To do this would have required a high degree of ingenuity, and experts believe the ancient engineers used a pulley system over a shifting conveyor-belt of logs.

Historians now think that the ring of stones was built in several different stages, with the first completed around 5,000 years ago by Neolithic Britons who used primitive tools, possibly made from deer antlers.

Modern scientists now widely believe that Stonehenge was created by several different tribes over time.

After the Neolithic Britons - likely natives of the British Isles - started the construction, it was continued centuries later by their descendants. 

Over time, the descendants developed a more communal way of life and better tools which helped in the erection of the stones. 

Bones, tools and other artefacts found on the site seem to support this hypothesis.

 

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