Aye, that's true enough. Mind, our old friend William, in a similar frame of mind writing about the destruction at Avebury, didn't do half bad either ;-)

"And this stupendous fabric, which for some thousands of years,
had brav'd the continual assaults of weather, and by the nature
of it, when left to itself, like the pyramids of Egypt, would have
lasted as long as the globe, hath fallen a sacrifice to the wretched
ignorance and avarice of a little village unluckily plac'd within it."