Tunnel plans under Stonehenge could put structure on UNESCO’s World Heritage in Danger list

The U.K. National Highways Agency wants to build a road tunnel under Stonehenge, which it says would relieve local traffic, the BBC writes.

For the past few years, an ambitious plan to dig beneath Stonehenge has been on the cards.

A United Nations committee is concerned that it could disrupt the henge’s setting if the tunnel is too short. In light of this, the committee will vote in July on whether to add the ancient monument to UNESCO’s World Heritage in Danger list.

This wouldn’t, however, be the first time someone has made a bold proposal to dig beneath Stonehenge.

More than 130 years ago, a British historian called Frederic Harrison proposed that excavating the ground under the monument would be a good idea – but he didn’t want to put a tunnel there; he was proposing to bury a civilizational time capsule that would include  poetry, music and skeletons.