A Piece of Stonehenge, Missing for 60 Years, Was Just Returned to the Site
A Piece of Stonehenge, Missing for 60 Years, Was Just Returned to the Site. A metre-long core from inside the prehistoric stone was removed during archaeological excavations in 1958. According to BBC NEWS English Heritage, which looks after Stonehenge, hopes the sample might now help establish where the stones originally came from. In 1958 archaeologists raised an entire fallen trilithon - a set of three large stones consisting of two that would have stood upright, with the third placed horizontally across the top. For 60 years Mr Phillips, an Englishman who now lives in retirement in Florida, kept his piece of Stonehenge - first in a plastic tube at his office in Basingstoke and later on the wall at home in the US. During the process workers extracted three 1m-long (3ft) cores of stone and Mr Philip took one of them. On the eve of his 90th birthday, he decided to return it. Archaeologists hope to analyse the chemical composition of the core...