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Salisbury's Stonehenge has been brought into the 21st Century, with the creation of a new augmented reality iPhone app, created by the University of Huddersfield and augmented reality software developer Ribui.

Users of the 'Stonehenge Experience' app can explore a virtual version of the 5,000-year-old famous landmark.

The app includes an 'excavation' site where users can discover the remains of a man who was buried with the arrow that killed him, by rubbing their finger on the smartphone's screen.

It also has an audio feature created by Rupert Till, senior lecturer in music technology at the University, which allows users to feel as if they are standing among the 75 enormous standing stones, each weighing up to 45 tonnes. If they speak into the phone's microphone it produces an echo effect which mimics the sound that would be created if the user was standing within the circle.

Till said: 'Creating the sound of Stonehenge as it was when it was first built was a really interesting challenge... it makes for an absorbing immersive experience and allows people to see and hear Stonehenge as it was 5,000 years ago.'

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