>...so how would spending £50 million actually increase a visitors knowledge, beyond that?<

Well, I'm not entirely sure what £50 million will buy these days but the beautiful glass-covered roof over the old Reading Room at the British Museum, the spectacularly converted power station now known as Tate Modern and the resurrected Globe Theatre next to it do actually spring to mind as possible examples of what can be done with that sort of money.

Forgive the platitude but Stonehenge is a very, very special place (sadly buggered up by past incompetence) but still special and still in need of something grand and awe-inspiring (if I may use those words). And while I'm on the subject - there's some interesting stuff at http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1535032,00.html (thanks to danielspaniel for the link). I wasn't aware that recent studies at Stonehenge, "...suggest it may have been 'Christianised' in the first millennium AD." Does anyone have any more info about that? Also, that there are still, "...long barrows - the most ancient of the communal graves built round Stonehenge - (that) have never been properly excavated."

Easy to assume that Stonehenge has now been well 'looked into' when in fact we may still be just scratching at its historical surface and (hopefully) laying the foundations for its 'inspiring' future.