“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”That snippet came to mind while reading this from the Ideas, Inventions And Innovations blog:
Stonehenge: The Latest Findings Show It Was Built By First Brits
...“In effect, Blick Mead was the very first Stonehenge Visitor Centre, up and running in the 8th millennium BC. The River Avon would have been the “A” Road – people would have come down on their log boats....The hell you say. Here's the new (Dec. 2013 vintage) visitor's center:
About which the head of English Heritage said:
"I think this building is elegant, beautiful, and above all fit for purpose," he said. "I think it is a great work of art. But amazingly, it is also reversible: if somebody thinks we got it all wrong in 30 years, it could be dug up, taken away and rebuilt somewhere else, or crunched up and sold off as scrap – and the field would be again as it was."Roger that, easy to scrap.Then again, on that foreign country bit...
