You forgot to tell 'em about the naked dancing for thousands of years, that's an important bit.

Oh, and not to be overly picky, but it ends up...

"Which sites it competes with in the league of ancient British artefacts"

but a site hain't a hartefact.
Even metal detectorists know that so I'm sure chavs would.

LOL!!!

However... (and I can't believe I'm saying something nice about English Heritage) I've got a copy of [b]The Stonehenge Companion[/] and I think it's a great little book! From cover-to-cover it's packed with fascinating little snippets of info, poems, quotes and illustrations. Something to dip into now and then rather than to read from beginning to end. Good on James McClintock, the editor, who brought all this stuff together and who says in his introduction -

"Ever since Geoffrey's time, historians and archaeologists have squabbled bitterly over the secrets of the stones. Who built the henge, and when, and why? The vast literature on the subject offers dozens of guesses, some more educated than others: Stonehenge was a Druid temple, it is said, or an ancient clock, a place where the Saxons hanged their British enemies, a computer, a tomb; and it was erected by the Romans, the Danes, early Britons, Phoenicians, Atlanteans or even (according to W S Blacket, author of Researches Into the Lost Histories of America - 1883) by a band of American Indians who worshipped the old Greek gods. 'One might also suppose,' the antiquarian John Michell wryly observes, 'that is was specially designed to accommodate every notion that could possibly be projected on it.'

"...whatever else Stonehenge may be - it serves as a colossal mirror, reflecting the prejudices and preferences of each passing age."

Aye... and the Mirror continues to reflect ;-)