Lewis Spence

In this masterly evocation of a bygone age, the reader will learn of the Druidic priesthood; its theology, rituals and places of worship, as well as its magic and system of auspices. It has long keen the custom of historians to designate the megalithic monuments, stones, circles, cromlechs and dolmens of Western Europe as the handiwork of a Druidic caste. Citing the evidence of classical writers that the shrines of Druids were chiefly situated in groves and afforested localities, Spence maintains that chronology would make it highly improbable that the stone circles of Stonehenge were of Druidic origin, and were likely the ancestral stones of a much earlier people.

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