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In 2005, Hutton noted that there had been "a considerable change of attitude" to Stukeley among scholars over the previous few years, as they had rejected the division into two halves of his life which Piggott had constructed.{{sfn|Hutton|2005|pp=381–382}}
Stukeley was the first person to identify the [[Stonehenge Avenue]] and [[Stonehenge Cursus]], giving these features the names by which they are now known.{{sfn|Piggott|1985|pp=92–93}}<ref>{{cite book |last1=Garrow |first1=Duncan |last2=Wilkin |first2=Neil |title=The World of Stonehenge |date=2022 |publisher=British Museum Press |location=London |isbn=978 07141 2349 3 |page=15}}</ref>
Piggott noted that Stukeley's speculations on druids, "which seem to us so childishly fantastic", shaped the literary mood of the romantic revival.{{sfn|Piggott|1985|p=12}} Haycock noted that, along with Macpherson and [[Thomas Gray]], Stukeley "helped create the principal historical and literary foundations for the 'Druidical revival' that flourished in the last decades of the eighteenth century".{{sfn|Haycock|2002|pp=234–235}}
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