Missing Stonehenge piece returned

A missing part taken from one of the huge sarsen stones at the ancient Stonehenge monument in the United Kingdom has been returned to the English Heritage agency that protects the site after 60 years.

During restoration work in 1958, one-meter long "cores" were drilled out of one of the stones so that it could be strengthened with steel rods. The stone cores disappeared, but one has now been found after an engineer that was part of the project gave it back.

The drilling work was undertaken by a diamond cutting business called Van Moppes, whose employee, Robert Phillips, had proudly kept one of the stone cores in his office. After he left the company in 1976, he emigrated to the United States, taking the rock sample with him.