Scrap Stonehenge road tunnel plans, say archaeologists after neolithic discovery

Exclusive: Discovery of prehistoric structure is another reason to give up disastrous white elephant' scheme

Leading archaeologists say a 1.6bn scheme to build a road tunnel through the historic Stonehenge landscape should be scrapped altogether after the sensational discovery nearby of the largest prehistoric structure ever found in Britain.

Mike Parker Pearson, professor of British later prehistory at University College London, said: This is just another reason to give up this disastrous white elephant of a scheme."