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Stonehenge: English Heritage
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Why Stonehenge was built is unknown, though it probably was constructed as a place of worship of some kind. Notions that it was built as a temple for Druids or Romans are unsound, because neither was in the area until long after Stonehenge was last constructed. Early in the 20th century, the English astronomer Sir Norman Lockyer demonstrated that the northeast axis aligned with the sunrise at the summer solstice, leading other scholars to speculate that the builders were sun worshipers. In 1963 an American astronomer, Gerald Hawkins, purported that Stonehenge was a complicated computer for predicting lunar and solar eclipses. These speculations... have been severely criticized by most Stonehenge archaeologists. "Most of what has been written about Stonehenge is nonsense or speculation," said R.J.C.
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This is the new logo English Heritage are going to use to ‘promote’ Stonehenge. They paid £10,000 for it. The logo was revealed at the launch of a marketing campaign to find a commercial operator to build and run the new visitor centre at Amesbury. A developer will be chosen in November, and it is supposed to open in 2003. Two years later the A344 is to be closed and work started on the A303 tunnel (public inquiries permitting). It would be finished by 2008.
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"Plans supported by the British government would undermine protection for world heritage sites such as Stonehenge and the Giant's Causeway, according to the organisation that advises on their protection. The IUCN, the international conservation union, which must be consulted before the designation of a world heritage site, says proposed rule changes undermine the convention that created such sites."
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