But how would Messrs Knight, Franck and Rutley, the estate agents who originally handled the sale, sell Stonehenge today? For Sir Cecil, however, Stonehenge belonged to the nation, and in after owning it for just three years he formerly handed it over to the country with a number of conditions. His conditions were that the entrance fee should never be more then a shilling 5p and that local residents should have free access. The Council agreed that the rights of way could be diverted further from the stone circle on condition that local residents would be granted free access.
Whether it was stipulated by Sir Cecil Chubb himself, or not, it's an agreement that has continued to the present day. According to English Heritage, the 30, local residents living in and around Stonehenge can still take up the offer of free access to one of England's most famous monuments. BBC Local. BBC Introducing. E-mail this to a friend Printable version. Stonehenge undergoes restoration work in No person may touch, lean against, stand on or climb the stones, or disturb the ground in any way.
The researchers have found buried evidence of more than 15 previously unknown or poorly understood late Neolithic monuments: henges, barrows, segmented ditches, pits. To Gaffney, these findings suggest a scale of activity around Stonehenge far beyond what was previously suspected. He and his team also found evidence of huge stones or timber posts lying three metres below the mounds that form the Durrington Walls. Proponents say the tunnel will reduce noise and traffic, but some archaeologists fear that it will damage artifacts at the historic site.
Every year, more than one million tourists flock to Stonehenge to marvel at the hulking rock formations erected by Neolithic builders roughly 5, years ago. Recently, archaeologists discovered evidence that people who lived in these houses feasted on meat and dairy products.
The rich diet of the people who may have built Stonehenge provides evidence that they were not slaves or coerced, said a team of archaeologists in an article published in in the journal Antiquity. Researchers have said the bluestone outcrops were made of natural, vertical pillars, making them easier to move.
They could be eased off the rock face by chiselling and opening up the vertical joints between each pillar. They were then placed on a platform before being lowered onto wooden sledges and then dragged away.
We believe in the free flow of information Though the stones were moved by manpower not magic, and taken from Wales not stolen from Ireland, our new research has revealed that Stonehenge may actually have first stood on a windswept hillside near the Pembrokeshire coast, at a site called Waun Mawn, before BC.
It might suprise you to learn theat theyve moved the stones many times, and the current configuration is not nessecarily consistent with how the stones look, but an archaeological representation. When Sir Edmund died in the state passed to his brother, Sir Cosmo, who decided to sell the estate.
Cecil Chubb's interest in the local area led to him attending the sale, which took place at the Palace Theatre, Salisbury on the 21st September Apparently he went with instructions from his wife to purchase some chairs.
He had no intention of bidding, but in his own words: "while I was in the room I thought a Salisbury man ought to buy it and that is how it was done". After the bidding Cecil admitted that he put his hand up on impulse. Cecil Chubb remained its owner for three years and then, on the 26th October , he formally handed it over to Sir Alfred Mond, the First Commissioner of Works, who received it as a gift on behalf of the nation.
The deed of gift included several conditions or covenants many of which have been changed over time.
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