The Circle and The Cross: A Study in Continuity, The Circle V1

1927. Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766176207. Volume 1 of 2 - The Circle. The problem of finding the true origin of the word 'church' has drawn the author vastly further than he ever anticipated, for this origin would seem to go back far into the beginnings of European civilization, and there is as much to be said of the word's pagan as of its Christian history. Contents: Circular churchyard; Round Barrow; Evolution of the Sepulchral ring; Origin of the Sepulchral ring; Achean, Latin and Danish Moot; Circles of Aberdeenshire; Circus in Britain; Moot Circles of the British Isles; Date of the Stone Circles; Nordic Peoples; Druidism; Cimbri and Their Kindred; Mound Moot.