Megaliti

Cours d'antiquités monumentales : histoire de l'art dans l'Ouest de la France, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'au XVIIe siècle. T1,PART1 / professé à Caen par M. de Caumont,... -Lance (Paris)-1830-1843 aux fées; ̃– 7*. Enceintes druidiques en pierres en terre. Description des monuments d'Avebury et de Stonehenge, etc. – 8* Alignements. Avenues de Carnac d'Ardeven ( Morbihan ) etc. g'. Pierres groupées. – so', Roches naturelles consacrées au culte. Un mot des sculptures et autres ouvrages grossiers

Les monuments mégalithiques dans les départements du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais / par L. Quarré-Reybourbon,... -H. et L. Casterman (Tournai)-1896

articolo completo su: Who Built Stonehenge | English Heritage : In the early medieval period, writers thought they knew who had built Stonehenge—Merlin. But by the early 17th century, scholars were looking for a more plausible answer. In 1620, architect Inigo Jones thought it was based on classical geometry and constructed by the Romans. Antiquary John Aubrey thought that the native Britons, in particular the Druids, were the builders of Stonehenge. Antiquary William Stukeley’s 1740 book firmly established the idea that it was a Druid temple. Towards the end of the 19th century, archaeologists began to realise that Stonehenge could be much older, linking finds to the Bronze Age. William Gowland’s excavations in 1901 showed that Stonehenge was built in the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Today, we think the stones were raised about 2,500 BC by the native inhabitants of late Neolithic Britain. (...)   Nel primo periodo medievale , si  pensav di sapere che aveva costruito...