You could easily spend hours exploring the more than 430 artefacts in the British Museum’s exhibition The World of Stonehenge. It’s so fascinating and beautiful, and oddly peaceful, that it takes a while to realise that something is missing from it: Stonehenge itself. There’s very little about the phases of its building, or where the different types of stone came from, and how, or new archæological work, or about its setting in the landscape. It’s almost as if these subjects are so thoroughly discussed elsewhere, the curators decided not to bother with them here.
There is a running timelineelsewhere: Scotland, Ireland, the Lake District, Germany. The exhibition is exploring the wider world in which people lived and, individually and collectively, sought meaning by interacting with their landscape.
