Evidence of Revival in British Construction Industry

Archaeologists excavating the west bank of the river Avon have discovered evidence of a second circle of stones a mile and three-quarters from Stonehenge. The director of the archaeological team has speculated that Neolithic society viewed the river as a conduit between the living and the dead since, at the time of the circle's supposed construction, some twelve hundred years before the foundation of the House of Lords, Stonehenge was Britain's largest burial ground. The stones for the newly discovered circle were apparently imported from a considerable distance away, doubtless at great trouble and expense; and Stonehenge itself may have taken as long as five hundred years to build, which indicates a certain reassuring continuity as far as the British construction trade is concerned. The discoveries at the river Avon are somewhat less spectacular than the Anglo-Saxon hoard recently found in Staffordshire; which may explain why nobody seems to have mentioned the real-estate value of the land involved, or to have asked how soon the Government intends building a road on top of it.