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[[File:SerpentWilliamStukeley.jpg|thumb|upright=1.57|right|Stukeley's serpent interpretation of the megaliths at [[Avebury]] in [[Wiltshire]]. [[Silbury Hill]] is in the foreground.]]
Hutton noted that Stukeley "always had a strong streak of mysticism and interpreted ancient remains in accordance with set notions concerning the nature of primeval religion."{{sfn|Hutton|2005|p=382}} He had a strong belief in
Few of Stukeley's ideas were wholly original, being based on earlier sources.{{sfn|Piggott|1985|p=100}} His general framework for understanding Britain's prehistoric past derived from his belief in the literal truth of [[Christian mythology|Biblical mythology]], including the Creation of the world in 4004 BC and events like the [[Genesis flood narrative]].{{sfn|Piggott|1985|p=100}} There is no evidence that when he started investigating Avebury and Stonehenge in 1719, he regarded them as having been erected by the druids.{{sfn|Piggott|1985|p=87}} At the time, many antiquarians believed that they had been created in more recent periods; [[Inigo Jones]] believed Stonehenge had been built by Romans, [[Walter Charleton]] by [[Norse activity in the British Isles|Danish invaders in the Anglo-Saxon period]], while [[Edmund Bolton]] attributed it to the ancient British but not specifically the druids.{{sfn|Piggott|1985|p=86}} In adopting the idea that the druids had erected these monuments, he was following the ideas of Aubrey, which he had read in unpublished manuscript form.{{sfn|Hutton|2005|p=385}}
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