"The location had a primitive grandeur but the Kings Stone, the principal monument, had beenfenced in with spiked railings by the Ministry of Works"

The stones of course, sad to say, have to be protected from the great British public, who are on occasions perfectly willing to vandalise sites, with little regard to past or future. Which leads on to the question why can you go to loads of other sites in the world that are unprotected and manage to stay unvandalised -

Never realised that "Culture" or cultured people left London to venture out into the wilderness that the rest of us inhabit - did he wear wellington boots?