STONEHENGE BY JOHN SPEED (C.1611)
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SKU BM-CLA468-B
Text on the reverse side:
From The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (1611) by celebrated English cartographer John Speed (1552-1629). Speed mistakenly believed Stonehenge to be of post-Roman origin and in the text accompanying his map of Wiltshire he posits that it was built as the tomb of Aurelius Ambrosius Aurelianus, King of the Romano-British.