Sir, Stonehenge acts like a magnet on iron filings in its ability to test the imaginations of archaeologists (“Charred bones ‘show Stonehenge was a cemetery for chiefs’”, Mar 9). Professor Parker Pearson’s examination, made possible by the advance of scientific techniques, of the cremated human bones from the Aubrey Holes and the animal bones found at nearby Durrington Walls has produced a novel yet plausible explanation as to why Stonehenge was built: a much more challenging question than where, when or how.
Studying the monument has long attracted the questioning minds of scholars but may it also have the power to keep one young? Robert Newall (not Newell as reported), who excavated the Aubrey Holes in 1920, used to visit Salisbury Museum with his cane