Representation by Michael Wood
- Date submitted
- 11 January 2019
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
The proposal by Highways England will involve irreparable damage to Britain's greatest historical landscape-including an interchange on the precise line of the midwinter solstice which we know now was so important to the builders of Stonehenge. This is agreed by 22 leading archaeologists who have pointed out that the plan is based on inadequate and obsolete information. They all conclude that a southern bypass well beyond the World Heritage Site zone is the only way to avoid massive impact on the whole area of the stone circle and its associated monuments. UNESCO too has condemned the plan. On the basis of this unanimous expert testimony the plan should clearly be withdrawn and rethought. I write as a Professor of Public History, a medieval historian and a film maker and broadcaster, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Historical Society. I refer you to my article criticising the proposed development in the BBC History Magazine September 2018