There are many things one can buy at an auction, especially if you're looking for a good antique. Dining chairs, for example. Maybe a nice set of curtains. When the barrister Cecil Chubb attended an auction in Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1915, his sights were set on something domestic. But in that feverish atmosphere of the auction house – a place where it's easy to get swept up in the thrill of bidding and fear of losing out on something one of a kind – he made an unexpected purchase. He bought Stonehenge for £6,600 (about £680,000 by today's value). It happened, he said, "on a whim". Chubb, who was the last private owner of Stonehenge, only laid claim to the site for three years. In 1918 he passed the stones into public ownership, where they have remained ever since under the care of English Heritage.

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