I just couldn’t believe it when I read it; two men have been caught chipping fragments from the Heel Stone at Stonehenge. The BBC refers to them as both vandals and “souvenir hunters,” and, while I suspect it’s technically true, I can’t help feeling that the second term lends an undeserved air of legitimacy to what they did. Let’s be clear about this; there is no excuse for their actions. They thought it was acceptable behaviour to damage a beloved and fascinating national treasure, which belongs to us all, in order to claim exclusive ownership of a tiny fragment of it. They’re scum, pure and simple.