For more than a century, visitors to Stonehenge rented hammers from the blacksmith in the next village and knocked off pieces of the stones as souvenirs — the chipping got so bad that in 1900 the owner fenced the site, and since 1978 no ordinary tourist has wandered freely among the stones
The strangest artifact of Stonehenge tourism isn’t sold in the gift shop. It’s a sound, preserved in a letter to...

