The millennium rock starts it's journey

A failed Heritage project to drag a three tonne rock from Wales to Stonehenge is to be tried again.

The water-borne stage of the journey

The attempt aimed to copy our prehistoric ancestors and take the stone on a 200 mile journey from Tenby in South Wales to Stonehenge.

However, the project ended last summer with the rock at the bottom of the sea.

The total bill for theHeritage Lottery Fund came to £100,000


It left most people to draw the conclusion that prehistoric man was either a lot stronger, or a lot cleverer than his modern day counterpart.

The eventual destination

This May the project will be resurrected. The stone has already been recovered from the sea bed.

If it makes it at the second time of asking, English Heritage has said the Millennium Rock could become part of it's planned new visitor centre, at Countess East in Amesbury.

You can see the full story of The Rock on this week's Southern Eye
Thursday at 7.30pm on BBC TWO.