[Stones] JL Macadam - The Foe of Stonehenge

[Andy Norfolk]

Tim P 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? 
This the Macadam who invented an improved road construction technique 
which involved breaking and grading stones. Perhaps it was the impetus 
this gave to quarrying and breaking up of stone that is behind this 
nickname?

Andy N


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