Archaeologists digging at England’s controversial Stonehenge A303 tunnel site have unearthed Neolithic pottery, Bronze Age burials and a mysterious C-shaped enclosure.
The area has been suffering from increasingly heavy traffic causing serious congestion on the 8 mile (13 kilometer) long A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down that runs past the 4,500-year-old Stonehenge UNESCO World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. The proposed solution is the Stonehenge tunnel project: a highly-controversial 2-mile-long (3.3 kilometer) twin-bore tunnel being built beneath the iconic ancient monument.
Archaeologists Concerned About Impact of Stonehenge Tunnel
In a January 2020 Ancient Origins news article I explained that a wave of English archaeologists voiced their concerns about Highways England, English Heritage and the National Trust's plans for the new £1.7bn tunnel. Professor Mike Parker Pearson is a member of Highways England ’s independent A303 scientific committee and he told The Guardian that the planned tunnel “might cause irreparable damage.” In another Guardian report archaeologists were reported as fearing the works might lead to “the loss of hundreds of thousands of artifacts.”
