The idea behind this is, the stones wound up scattered by a glacier all over what’s now Wiltshire, and the pre-Anglo-Saxon population thought, “hey, I’ve got an idea”. Basically it’s an old bias also found expressed in older Encyclopaedia Brittanicas — that the Celts were incapable of concerted action.
They always underestimate the intelligence of earlier civilizations and societies.
THEY should remember. OUR “CULTURE” invented LIBERALISM, not theirs. THAT’S NOT VERY INTELLIGENT!!!!