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The pod reh to carry a hundred people and so for the ride They took his claims seriously The others had stayed behind to enjoy the festivities at the palace and watch the trip to Stonehenge on their tablets

The chancellor sat beside hieneral shape was visible in the nised the Bristol Channel but couldn't see any signs of a city where Bristol was located in his former realm

The vast expanse of Salisbury Plains ca distant past, appeared on hisstones and huge earthworks erected in the Megalithic Age That was encouraging but it didn'twould succeed

He wondered ould happen if it failed and was thinking about Dafne and the furies when Stonehenge appeared, lit by a powerful bearoith trees and the stones were scarcely visible

The chancellor nudged his arm

'Where do you want to excavate, Professor?'

To It was somewhere in the outer circle Years earlier he had been present during the excavation of a nearby burial A oods had been uncovered

He took sightings and pointed to one of the stones

'What e find e dig there, Professor?'

Toold ornaments that once adorned the deadarrow heads

'Are you prepared to stake your life on it?'

'Only if the grave has not already been excavated'