Science is A piece of Stonehenge that for sixty years was lost, has finally returned to the prehistoric site. It was the 89-year-old Briton Robert Phillips that the part all that time had hidden. Until he decided to give back.
It’s going to be a part of something more than a meter long, that was gone after the archaeological excavations in 1958. In that work it was also Robert Phillips, now 89, was involved. He hid the bar in his office to the only now back to donate. English Heritage hopes that the stone rod can help determine where the world-famous stones originally come from.
61 years ago, attracted archaeologists found a fallen trilithon – a structure of two vertical stones on which a third horizontal rest – straight. One of the vertical stones and showed cracks. If strengthening were three holes in the stones are drilled, in which metal rods were made. The repairs were masked with fragments of sarsen-stone, found in the excavations.
