What, actually, people like Ric are doing is attempting to change people's perceptions of what's important to us artistically, culturally and historically. After nearly 2,000 years under the cultural yoke of the 'classical' Greco-Roman world however that's not going to be easy.

It's all about perception, but perceptions can and do change. Go into any stately home in Europe and you're confronted with mind-numbing rows of marble heads and paintings of people's ancestors. Go into a stately home in the Far East and what you'll see are paintings of the natural world where, if a figure appears in them at all, it's usually tiny in comparison to the surrounding landscape.

Put another way, if the buried and fallen stones at Avebury were Roman statues, and not sarsens, they'd be excavated, cleaned up and put on display pronto; the fact that they're not, but something people none-the-less valued, and went to great trouble to collect and display, seems not to be important - something wrong somewhere.