Taken from Book: Stonehenge a history in photographs by Fulian Richards
I found these photo's really interesting as it reveals part of the monuments history that is not very noticeable today. Perviously I had spoke to people about the restoration that took place and seems they were not aware of this but apparently Stonehenge has gone through quite a few restorations in the past. Its funny as before I even saw these images I just assumed Stonehenge was a monument unchanged throughout time and yes the image itself has been unchanged for thousands of years although I suppose if you look at the suggested evidence there are speculations that the monument did evolve from a wooden structure and then gradually to how we see it today but either way the circular configurations are a strong part of the overall image.
However it is interesting seeing these images of people trying to preserve the monument, the actual scale of the reconstruction's seems to be huge, douse this then leave questions about the monuments originality from its original builders, the image is unchanged to a certain extent but the activity around it or imposed on it is always changing.
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