http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080522/wl_uk_afp/britainarchaeologyhistoryheritagestonehenge
Evidently they took a coin-sized chip from one of the center stones with a hammer and screwdriver (using it as a chisel), and left a 2.5 inch scar on the Heel Stone.
Not much of a vandalizing, but Not Good.
They got away.
What the heck? Were these souvenir hunters, or NewAge types of an unscrupulous sort , looking for relics? Or what?
Whatever other category they might fall under, they were assholes.
I hate assholes.
No one knows who they were, or what they were doing.
Perhaps they were some sort of calendar? 
Well, it’s not on e-bay yet.
There is loads of graffiti in Newgrange . Some of it goes back to the 19th century, people etched their names in the stone.
Considering how much camera surveillance Britain has, it’s hard to imagine they don’t have a couple on Stonehenge. It’s not like the place is the worlds largest ball of rubber bands or some other trivial site.
Morons?
What they got was a little piece of stone, it’s not part of Stonehenge any more and it will look just like any other pick of rock. Do they think it’s magic or something? A sort of holy relic?
The (urm) essense? of Stonehenge is that it’s an arrangement of bloody great rocks thousands of years’ old you don’t get any of that from a little chip of stone.
Anyway Avebury’s better.
Total heels, anyway.
::winces::
That’s druidful.
I mean, to do something like that, they must be unhenged.
Of course, Stonehenge is a bit of a con anyway, cos most of the rocks have just been plunked down where the 19th-century “restorers” thought they ought to go, having fallen over and been generally kicked around over the years.
And for some reason it’s obligatory for all American tourists who visit it to say “Gee, it’s so small.”
Just restoring a longstanding tradition. My Stonehenge guide book (purchased at the official Stonehenge gift shop) mentions that in the old days you could go into town and rent a hammer and chisel for precisely that purpose.
I might have said “Gee, it’s so small,” but I’m not sure.
I did get a really beautiful photo of it in the crisp cold January air. I keep it in my office.
Well the stones were SUPPOSED to be 18’ high, not 18".
I didn’t – it was big enough for me.
I visited before they isolated the thing, so I could go up and touch the stones. My comment was that I wasn’t terribly impressed by the so-called dagger images on the rocks.
“You’ve got to have faith!” replied a guard, when I mentioned this.
What the heck – it’s bigger and more impressibve than America’s Stonehenge
…and better-looking than American replicas:
That ain’t “America’s Stonehenge”. This is!
…Ah, you have it in your second link. Well I’d like to see someone take a chip out o’ Carhenge!
Tsk tsk. Mind your menhirs!
That’s what everyone says when they see the Statute of Liberty.
We have to. They won’t let us back through customs if we don’t.