William Stukeley FRS FSA (7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765) was an English antiquarian, physician and Anglican clergyman. A significant influence on the...

the 19th century. Meanwhile, antiquarians such as William Camden, John Aubrey and William Stukeley had begun to take an interest in the monuments. Fuller...

Stukeley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: William Stukeley Thomas Stukley (alternate spelling) This page lists people with the surname...

before the suppression of chantries and hospitals. The antiquarian William Stukeley reported that his father removed the ruins from the site which is now...

as William Stukeley) recorded Newton's version of the incident, though not the meritless version that the apple actually hit Newton's head. Stukeley recorded...

religious and practical reasons. The antiquarians John Aubrey and William Stukeley took an interest in Avebury during the 17th and 18th centuries, respectively...

with William Stukeley over the antiquity and imagery of the carvings on the walls of the recently discovered cave at Royston. He attacked Stukeley's claim...

structures on the islands. The name 'cursus' was suggested in 1723 by William Stukeley, the antiquarian, who compared the Stonehenge cursus to a Roman chariot-racing...

by 11th-century writers are "stones supported in the air". In 1740, William Stukeley notes: "Pendulous rocks are now called henges in Yorkshire ... I doubt...

William Camden's 1637 work Britannica, linked the Giant with a supposed minor Saxon deity named by Camden as "Hegle"; In the 1760s William Stukeley recorded...

appears in a letter written in 1754 by the English antiquary William Stukeley. Stukeley wrote that, "This mighty wall [Hadrian's wall] of four score miles...

Stonehenge the work of Druids. This view was greatly popularised by William Stukeley. Aubrey also contributed the first measured drawings of the site, which...

earliest modern Druids aligned themselves with Christianity. The writer William Stukeley regarded the Iron Age druids as monotheist proto-Christians who worshipped...

of gravity at any single moment, acquaintances of Newton (such as William Stukeley, whose manuscript account of 1752 has been made available by the Royal...

In the early 18th century, the site was recorded by the antiquarian William Stukeley although the stones were destroyed by local farmers in the 1720s. The...

belonged to the Eleanor Cross. A letter from the 18th-century antiquary William Stukeley (now untraceable) is alleged to have stated that he had one of the...

William Hogarth FRSA (/ˈhoʊɡɑːrθ/; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial...

sapientis ossa Merlini' (where now are the bones of the wise Merlin). William Stukeley, the antiquarian, believed a Roman fort once occupied the site where...

made for the factoid that the Great Wall is visible from the Moon. William Stukeley mentioned this claim in his letter dated 1754, and Henry Norman made...

'stone') and was first used in its modern archaeological sense by William Stukeley. Other famous trilithons include those found in the Megalithic temples...

return to Britain. After the war he went to Oxford to study the work of William Stukeley, but in 1946 was offered the Abercromby Chair of Archaeology at Edinburgh...

rector, the Rev. John South, as a curiosity. Darwin communicated with William Stukeley who obtained the fossil for the Royal Society and described it in a...

1744 – Jean Barbeyrac, French scholar and jurist (b. 1674) 1765 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist and historian (b. 1687) 1768 – Nicola Porpora...

the stone into pieces of a suitable size for use in construction. William Stukeley wrote that sarsen is "always moist and dewy in winter which proves...

been acknowledged since William Stukeley drew the site and first identified its axis along the midsummer sunrise in 1720. Stukeley noticed that the Heel...

for antiquarian research including such figures as Richard Gough and William Stukeley. In the 1740s, Archbishop Thomas Herring left £1000 for the rebuilding...

as an international power. Antiquarians and archaeologists, notably William Stukeley, were conducting excavations of megalithic sites, including Stonehenge...

as "Gillian's Bore" and "Gilling Bore". The 18th-century antiquary William Stukeley mentions a "Julian Bower" turf maze at Horncastle, Lincolnshire, and...

life, such as the polymath Robert Hooke, antiquary William Stukeley, and circumnavigator William Dampier. For the last, Moll engraved numerous maps for...

"spherical temple" mentioned by Diodorus with the Calanais Stones. In 1743, William Stukeley described the stone circle as a druid circle and the avenue like a...