Stonehenge landscape to be returned to original state

As part of the plans to improve the Stonehenge landscape in southern England, farmers are being given grants to return their intensive arable fields to traditional low-density pasture.

Fields close to the World Heritage Site are being sown with native grass seed taken from the army ranges on Salisbury Plain, which largely preserves a landscape which vanished in the surrounding area after the Second World War. The objective is to achieve poor quality pasture on thin chalky soil, supporting a low density of stock, which would mark a return to the style of farming of 1,000 years ago ... Stone Pages Archaeo News