Tom Fort

A Prehistoric Lourdes?

Stonehenge: Exploring the Greatest Stone Age Mystery

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The 12th-century chronicler Geoffrey of Monmouth attributed the building of Stonehenge to Merlin the magician. According to his History of the Kings of Britain, Merlin located the stones on a mountain in Ireland and exercised his special powers to spirit them over to Salisbury Plain. My, how we chortle at the credulity of those nincompoops of long ago!

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