[Stones] JL Macadam - The Foe of Stonehenge

[Thelma Wilcox]

Hi Tim,  the magic joining word is roads... J.L.Macadam builder of roads? macadam as an early surface, therefore poor Stonehenge beset by roads.  The link  below takes you to a Gutenberg book on Stonehenge by the way, with the following imbedded somewhere within...
  many a noble Grey Wether has been led to slaughter to provide macadam for the roads. ...
Thelma
   
   
  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19130/19130-h/19130-h.htm
   
  
Tim P <thehermitoftillywhim at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
  Earlier in the year I read (most of) Reader's readable biography of J L 
Macadam. I asked this question on Britarch, but it sank without trace; I 
think it was posted in the middle of one of the perennial 
metal-detecting debates, and got lost in that.

Anyway, a poem is cited therein (Thomas Hood, 1825) which which refers 
to Macadam as "The Foe of Stonehenge".

Out of curiosity, would anyone know upon what grounds Macadam had this 
title attributed to him?

All the best

Tim

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