Stonehenge

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Medieval writers had no idea what Stonehenge was

First reference to Stonehenge, 1100s AD
- Geoffrey of Monmouth: built in AD 470 (wrong) by a Roman, Aurelius Ambrosis (wrong), rocks transported by Merlin (wrong)
  - Geoffrey's Merlin is a conflation of the Welsh prince Myrddin ab Morfryn and Vortigern's prophet Ambrosius (Nennius, H.B.)
  - This claim repeated for ~300 years without any alternative stories, then forgotten
In 1620, it is generally believed to be Roman
Druidic theory first proposed in 1690s by John Aubrey in unpublished, lost dissertation

Source: T.D. Kendrick, The Druids, 1966 (reprint of 1928)

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