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New Stonehenge for Aussies

An entrepreneur has announced plans to build an exact replica of Stonehenge in Australia. Ross Smith hopes the monument will be ready in time for Australia’s next summer solstice on 21 December. Mr Smith said: “I’m doing it because I can.”

He plans to reconstruct the ancient monument on land he owns in the Margaret River region of Western Australia. The structure will be made with 2,500 tonnes of granite quarried from Esperance, on Western Australia’s south coast. Mr Smith said The Henge would be a business venture, to be hired out for weddings and other events.

He said: “Nowhere in the world has a complete Stonehenge been built.”

Except, perhaps, on Salisbury Plain?

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .