
Ministers gave researchers from Sheffield University, in northern England, permission to keep the bones until 2015.
However, King Arthur, a 57-year-old former soldier, said he feared they would be placed in a museum and not returned.
The bearded druid, who changed his name through legal channels, told the court the remains were members of the "royal line" or "priest caste" and druids considered them the guardians of Stonehenge.
"They have a right to go back to their final resting place, Stonehenge," he told the court.
"But I believe they will be kept in perpetuity in case scientific techniques move on and they can test them again."
But judge Wyn Williams refused to give him permission to launch a review of the government's decision, saying that there was insufficient evidence to show that the justice ministry might have acted unreasonably.
The justice ministry denied the remains would be removed to a museum or that it had failed to take account of King Arthur's views.
Druids were an ancient priestly class about which little is known as they left no written accounts.
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However, King Arthur, a 57-year-old former soldier, said he feared they would be placed in a museum and not returned.
The bearded druid, who changed his name through legal channels, told the court the remains were members of the "royal line" or "priest caste" and druids considered them the guardians of Stonehenge.
"They have a right to go back to their final resting place, Stonehenge," he told the court.
"But I believe they will be kept in perpetuity in case scientific techniques move on and they can test them again."
But judge Wyn Williams refused to give him permission to launch a review of the government's decision, saying that there was insufficient evidence to show that the justice ministry might have acted unreasonably.
The justice ministry denied the remains would be removed to a museum or that it had failed to take account of King Arthur's views.
Druids were an ancient priestly class about which little is known as they left no written accounts.
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