There were once striking prehistoric ritual monuments beside the Thames in Oxfordshire. But quarrying, an airfield and centuries of farming all but wiped them from the map. Then archaeologists decided to rebuild the most impressive. Could it be done? Gill Hey reports.
"Few areas in Britain", wrote Don Benson and David Miles in their archaeological survey of the upper Thames in 1972, "present a more dramatic saga of discovery and destruction" than that to the south and west of the village of Stanton Harcourt, 10km west of Oxford. The late neolithic stone circle and henge monument known as the Devil's Quoits has had a particularly chequered history.
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