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1611. King James I investigated Stonehenge "to see 'The stone which the builders refused.'" King James Version, 1611 1616. Doctor William Harvey, Gilbert North, and Inigo Jones find horns of stags and oxen, coals, charcoals, batter-dashers, heads of arrows, pieces of rusted armour, rotten bones, thuribulum (censer) pottery, and a large nail. Long, William, 1876, Stonehenge and its Barrows. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volume 16 1620. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, dug a large hole in the ground at the center of Stonehenge looking for buried treasure. (D...

Author: I've spent half a century (yikes) writing for radio and print—mostly print. I hope to be still tapping the keys as I take my last breath. The ritual burial site of a king 14 centuries ago lay undiscovered in Britain until just before World War II. What archaeologists found when the tomb was excavated caused a rewriting of history books. The iconic Sutton Hoo helmet was badly corroded when found and has been reconstructed. A King Is Buried The people who lived in Eastern England during the Dark Ages (the fifth to the tenth centuries CE) left no written record of their lives. That mea...

Almost 100 new homes have been approved at the Royal Manor school site, Portland - inset cllr Susan Cockings and cllr Paul Kimber AN outline application for almost 100 homes on the Royal Manor Arts College site, Portland has been agreed. It clears the way for the former school buildings to be demolished but does not yet allow building to start, apart from creating a site entrance off Weston Road. The buildings on the 2.5 hectare site have stood empty since July 2016. The Homes England application suggests that 25 per cent of the new properties would be affordable homes. It does not sp...