Our Grand Tour of Britain alights at what is arguably the world’s most famous prehistoric site: Stonehenge, in Wiltshire.
This is one of the wonders not only of this country, but of the world. The mere sight of it — the great circle of massive stones, alone in the bare landscape — evokes awe. We struggle to imagine the feat of will and organisation necessary to create it.
Archaeologists have yet to decode this phenomenon of pre-history; part of the hold that…