>Its such a shame that most of Salisbury plain is still under Army rule as there are places there that need looking at again as a source of a sarsen drift.<

True, but in a way the army has been a beneficial custodian of much of Salisbury Plain (sure it's blown bits of it up over the years but on the whole it's kept out the roads and the developers and I hear tell that in some places the flora and fauna are doing pretty well).

I agree with you though that the 'easy way' was, and is, the preferred way. Trouble is, if you see a bit of stone that particularly takes your fancy you're going to have to move it whatever. We both know that good sarsens are found all over Wiltshire but they may not be exactly what you're looking for; more importantly they may not be in a 'sacred' or 'meaningful' place. Piggledene is a pretty special place even now (and the ancients perhaps also felt that). If you're going to go to all the trouble of building Stonehenge you're going to want to feel that your materials have come from somewhere special - not just some old sarsen in some old muddy stream at the bottom of someone's field.

Just a thought.