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The Stonehenge Monument Was Built By Druids

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According to the reading passage the Stonehenge monument was built by the Druids, and used by them to hold their religious ceremonies. The lecturer doubts this theory saying, that facts and dates presented in the reading don't match up with actual scientific research. Further the lecturer explains it in details.
At first the lecturer states, that the date of Druids arriving in England is not exactly specified. However it is known for a fact, that they couldn’t have arrived there any time before 1500 b.c. This denies the possibility of Stonehenge having been built by the Druids. That is because the monument was actually built in three phases and two of them took place houndread of years before the arriving of the Druids.
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