mo4ch:>‘A travesty’: Archaeologists enraged after Stonehenge site ‘damaged’ during drilling work | Mo4ch News

Engineers working for Highways England may have inadvertently damaged a 6,000-year-old platform which may hold the key to answering the question: Why was Stonehenge built in the first place?Preparatory drilling of a three-meter-deep hole (10ft) through a man-made platform of flint and animal bone at the Blick Mead site, roughly a mile from the standing stones at Stonehenge, has caused uproar among the archaeological community working in the area and studying one of mankind’s enduring mystery structures.Also on rt.comStonehenge builders herded animals all the way from Scotland for lavish Neolithic feastsBlick Mead is part of the Stonehenge and Avebury UNESCO world heritage site. Archeologists were already concerned about the possibility that the works could cause the local water table to drop, damaging artefacts and remains in the area.The stone platform that, reportedly damaged during the drilling, contained the hoof prints of an aurochs, a type of giant prehistoric cow which is now e…