Bible Encyclopedias
Stone Circles

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Circles of standing stones (q. v .) found in various parts of Great Britain, North Europe generally, and also, but of more recent origin, in North India; were certainly, in the most of cases, set up to mark the circular boundary of a place of burial; erroneously ascribed to the Druids; from the character of numerous cinerary urns exhumed, seem to have belonged to the bronze age in Great Britain; most interesting are those of Stennis, in Orkney, with a circumference of 340 ft., Avebury, in Wiltshire, and Stonehenge ( q. v .).

Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Stone Circles'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​s/stone-circles.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.