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The great day of opening is on the horizon. Empty coffin (hopefully) on top of a car as a road protest, Druids protesting about 'bones', perhaps one day it will sink quietly into obscurity.....

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/dec/15/stonehenge-visitor-centre-review

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stonehenge-two-tribes-go-to-war--over-bones-9005425.html

Go get them Arthur Pendragon!!

A little gallery of pictures here as well.
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2013/dec/15/stonehenge-visitor-centre-in-pictures
I think it looks lovely, rather fragile and ephemeral. Just the job.

27 million pounds. Human remains on display. I couldn't see where any of the articles said how much money people will actually have to hand over for a ticket to wander over to the stones? The stones have gained this visitor centre but what have they lost?

I am lost for words.

Surely casts of the human remains could be made for display purposes and the remains treated properly and re-buried . I'm sure 99% of people visiting wouldn't even notice , and those who did would sooner see this done .

Not sure if his has been posted elsewhere but gives a quick look inside the centre.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25412430

:o)

My Blue Badge Guide mate (see earlier post) proposes a nightmare scenario : 3 delayed coaches arrive (ship late, motorway hold up etc) with 3 on time coaches there plus many occasional visitors unaware of the new conditions! Great on a sunny Bank Holiday.
Disappointed that the landtrain is pulled by a Land Rover. Electric traction not considered?
Jim.

Might this comment from the recent "Stonehenge Synthesis " signal the demise of you know what ?
"Considerable interest has arisen from the discovery of parallel ditch and ridge features
(Fig 2.3) recorded in Atkinson's 1956 excavation of the Avenue (Cleal et al 1995, 309),
and relocated by the Stonehenge Riverside excavations in 2008 (Parker Pearson et al
2008a). The question of whether these are periglacial features that were visible as parch marks to the Stonehenge builders (Parker Pearson et al 2008a), or ruts associated with
the previous use of the avenue as a by-way (Chadburn pers comm) remains open but
recent results showing their extension northeastwards along a line towards Durrington
supports the latter interpretation (Darvill and Leuth, in prep)."