Stonehenge - Ancient Ritual Site or Tourism Hoax

Stonehenge is said to be an ancient monolithic structure built anywhere from 3000 to 30,000 years ago. Is it a site of ancient rituals, worship of the druids, or an elaborate hoax to kickstart an economy? Okay, so that last bit is a joke, but the idea was certainly spawned by real research.

That's Jeranism: a flat earther. He sets off my dissinfo alarm for having been on Chris Geo show, and slandering the word of God. He claims Jesus is not the messiah. If you're wondering what my beef is with Geo, we personally argued. He openly supported H.P Blavatsky, and slandered Christians by showing a crime site of Christian molesters. I made him look foolish, stating math showed those crimes are committed by 5-10% of the Christian community. He deleted comments, and heavily censored the conversation, making himself look victor. Geo is on Genesis Broadcasting, with Alex Jones. Both shills in my books.

Jeranism made a video, but he swears a lot, so I'll show a similar video.

Jeranism's video is very similar, except he goes as far as to say Stonehenge was built in the 50's, during the "restoration." He claims something similar about the pyramids, ignoring all ancient texts, including the old testament. Right, there's no mummies, and no literature. Fair warning.

This video shows old photos, allegedly proving it's not fake.

 

As you can see, there's some pretty good information predating the 56 restoration.

Wikipedia

Above, Merlin crafts the monument with his own hands. This is explained in our earliest known writing of Stonehenge, by Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his book ‘History of the Kings of Britain’ from 1136.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/history/

It's admitted Roman discoveries were made around the area, as Roman empire was in Britannia as early as 55AD.

Above is a map of Roman coins in the area of England. Totally populated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/d8b7c554fa6797bc733d185e4a20d07025e8ae54.gif

The map above shows tribes already in the area during Roman occupation.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55515000/jpg/_55515601_2_01_ptolemy_albion_hibernia_1654.jpg

We have a 2nd century Ptolemy map, but no mentions of Stonehenge until after the dark ages?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy

We really have to wonder: Why was Stonehenge not mentioned until after the collapse of a major economy? It remains a tourist attraction to this day. Was that always its purpose?