Missing piece of Britain’s ancient Stonehenge returned after 60 years | World News, The Indian Express

Missing piece of Britain’s ancient Stonehenge returned after 60 years | World News, The Indian Express

By Reuters |London |Published: May 8, 2019 6:07:15 pm

Missing piece of Britain’s ancient Stonehenge returned after 60 years

Robert Phillips, an employee of the diamond cutting firm Van Moppes which carried out the work, kept the extracted stone core and later took it to the United States when he emigrated there, English Heritage said.

English Heritage said the missing piece, incongruously pristine amid the weathered stone from where it came, could now help determine the origin of the stone.

A piece of stone drilled from Stonehenge, a mysterious circle of ancient stones in southern England, has been returned to the site 60 years after being removed during archaeological excavations, English Heritage said on Wednesday.