ENGLAND'S first crown jewels found... The king of Stonehenge: Were artefacts at ancient chief's burial site Britain's first Crown Jewels? By Paul Harris, Daily Mail.
He was a giant of a man, a chieftain who ruled with a royal sceptre and a warrior's axe.
When they laid him to rest they dressed him in his finest regalia and placed his weapons at his side. Then they turned his face towards the setting sun and sealed him in a burial mound that would keep him safe for the next 4,000 years.
In his grave were some of the most exquisitely fashioned artefacts of the Bronze Age, intricately crafted to honour the status of a figure who bore them in life in death.
For this may have been the last resting place of the King of Stonehenge - and the treasures that are effectively Britain's first Crown Jewels.
Now the entire hoard, recovered from the richest and most important Bronze Age grave on Salisbury Plain, is set to go on permanent display. (more)....
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'Euston Arch' stones to be saved (from the BBC news website)
Stones believed to be part of a giant arch that used to stand at Euston railway station are being retrieved from an east London waterway.
The 70ft Grecian arch stood at the front of the station for 123 years until its destruction in 1962.
The stones are being lifted from the Prescott Channel, where they were used to fill a hole in the riverbed.
Campaigners want to reconstruct the arch using as much of the original stone as possible.
The arch was demolished by the British Transport Commission when the station was redeveloped in the 1960s.
'Act of barbarism'
British Waterways will lift the stones from the channel, near Bromley-by-Bow, on Monday to enable barges to use the lock to transport materials in and out of the Olympic Park for the 2012 Games.
Historian Dan Cruickshank described the arch as "the first great building of the railway age" and said its destruction was an "act of barbarism".
He is a member of the Euston Arch Trust, which wants to rebuild the arch between two existing lodges on Euston Road.
Mr Cruickshank said: "The careful raising of a number of its stones - a magnificent gesture on the part of British Waterways - moves the rebuilding campaign forward significantly and means that a great cultural wrong committed in the 1960s can yet be put right."
