Talk:William Stukeley

Freemasonry
Stukeley's diary clearly states that he was made a mason in January 1721, before Montagu's installation. The Grand Master was a commoner, there is no commentary on numbers, and (obviously) there is no commentary on future events. The two statements about lodge numbers and later developments in Grand Lodge would be useful if referenced. Does anybody know where these quotes came from? Fiddlersmouth (talk) 00:25, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Incorrectly my foot
The article currently reads Stukeley
 * ...incorrectly believed that the prehistoric megalithic monuments were a part of the druidic religion

which besides being unsourced is almost certainly a. It is undoubtably true that they were erected well before the people the Romans identified as druids were hanging around, but there's absolutely no way of establishing that the druids didn't consider themselves the continuation of a faith handed down by the original monolith builders; no way—short of archaeological digs establishing that absolutely no one visited the site for centuries during the Roman period—of establishing that they actually weren't; and no way of establishing that they weren't repurposed by the druids in some other fashion regardless of their original founders' intent. Removed pending clarification of some point he certainly got wrong (believing them to have been constructed c. 1st century, for instance). — Llywelyn II   04:49, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

[edit: ...were created as part of the 1st-millennium druidic religion... seems to have been what they meant, but the 4th century BC dating could use a source and there's no real reason it needs to go in the lead. Should kind of go without saying that the very first people to look at Stonehenge critically but without any modern dating techniques would make mistakes.] — Llywelyn II   09:32, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Bertram
Stukeley's involvement with Charles Bertram's forgery needs mentioning. — Llywelyn II   09:32, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

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