Reliable History

[adaeze]

Have recently been passed a hand-me-down Very Large, Very Authoritative looking, History of England.  Not sure quite how old it is, but probably Victorian from the style. 

"The belief now appears tolerably settled, that Stonehenge was a temple of the Druids.  It differs, however, from all other Druidical remains, in the circumstance that greater mechanical art was employed in its construction, especially in the super-incumbent stones of the outer circle and of the trilithons, from which it is supposed to derive its name; stan being the Saxon word for a stone, and heng to hang or support."

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Faculties of archaeology, history and linguistics can close down now, with The Last Word having been unearthed.

[malaheed.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you've proved the old saying about judging a book by its cover

[adaese.livejournal.com]

It gets better - don't have the book with me at work to quote direct from, but the gist of the argument is According to Julius Caesar, the Gallic Druids used to have regular get-togethers in a sacred site somewhere near Chartres, therefore the British Druids must have needed somewhere similar, thus proving that Stonehenge was the Druids' favourite site.

He goes on to argue that the Druids must have been very, very important people to the pre-Roman Britons, from the large number of stone circles and similar monuments they left lying around.