There's Archeological Drama Brewing at Stonehenge
In DepthFor the last two years, archeologists and historians have been saying that a plan to build a 1.8-mile tunnel that goes underneath Stonehenge could have potentially disastrous effects on the surrounding areas and ruin efforts to uncover more evidence about the region’s ancestors. Today, it seems, they might have been onto something.
People like archeologist David Jacques have been opposed to the construction of the underground tunnel, which would be accessible from inside the popular landmark, from the get-go, arguing that it could interfere with work being done at Blick Mead, an archeological site about 1.5 miles from Stonehenge. Now, Jacques accuses construction workers of digging a 10-foot deep hole through a platform “made of flint and animal bone around 4,000 BCE,” according to TIME. Jacques, who is the lead archeologist at Blick Mead, tells the BBC he was not consulted before engineers started digging and calls it “a travesty.”