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September 21, 1915

The Man Who Bought Stonehenge

The auction of Stonehenge on September 21, 1915

For four thousand years it belonged to no one in particular, then in one wartime afternoon a Salisbury lawyer bought it on a bid. What made a man pay six thousand six hundred pounds for a ring of ancient stones — and then give it away?

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