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What did the Romans think of Stonehenge?

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Probably not much. In the modern world, few people were interested in Stonehenge until the advent of the New Age movement in the 1970s. The truth is that modern technology (e.g., carbon dating) and modern photography techniques made Stonehenge a phenomenon. read more

Stonehenge was about as ancient to the Romans as the Romans are to us. Romans were also very superstitious, and an ancient religious artifact is exactly the sort of thing they would be inclined to leave well alone. read more

Stonehenge also appears in numerous contemporary lists of the marvels of England. In general, the medieval period associated Stonehenge with the marvelous. As for your more general question, there are some accounts of people in medieval England responding to the ruins leftover from the Roman conquest of England. read more

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