Stonehenge Bluestone Scarf

When your friends ask 'what is the design on that wonderful scarf?', you can give them a million guesses, but they'll never get the right answer: Stonehenge.

Who'd ever guess such a multitude of colours and patterns, invisible to the human eye, were 'hidden' in Stonehenge? And especially this chip that came out dolerite blue.

This is a high resolution scan of an actual piece of Stonehenge chipped off by the great Victorian mineralogist, Matthew Forster Heddle - not something that would be encouraged today!

It is the result of a partnership with the Open University using their million pound microscope to produce, for the first time ever, images of the 'inside' of the stones that make up Stonehenge.

It was produced at the request of English Heritage, and proved popular at the Stonehenge Visitor Centre.