Heaven knows what our Neolithic forebears would make of the present-day Stonehenge tunnel fandango.
What those civil engineers of 4,500 years ago achieved – dragging the central megalith 500 miles from Scotland to Salisbury Plain and others from Wales, for instance, then ensuring the stone circle aligned precisely with the sun and stars – was a dazzling feat of ingenuity.
Certainly, it makes our own attempts to build a road under the World Heritage Site seem embarrassing by comparison.
The traffic-easing tunnel scheme has popped up in various incarnations over the past 30 years. Yet it never once got off the ground, never
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