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Stanton Drew, and that they bear no trace of having been cut 
or hewn from large pieces. 
As to the situation of these remarkable monuments of a 
bye-gone age, they are scattered over a somewhat wide tract,: 
close to the village and Church of Stanton Drew. They may 
best be described by treating each group separately, as each 
group was very likely used for a purpose of its own. 
1. Three stones, called the Cove, by Stukeley, some distance 
from the circles, two of which are upright and one is prostrate, 
the former are about 14 and 11 feet high respectively. The 
fallen one is broken, and it is not easy to tell what was its 
original size. They are all of the same sort of composition. The 
stones are very hard, and, although showing signs of breakage in 
former times, yet, according to what I am told, now withstand 
the severest frost. It is said that the fallen stone was placed on 
those now upright, but this is only a conjecture, arising from 
the idea that these stones together formed adolmen. There is 
nothing to bear out this idea, and then one of the upright 
stones is much shorter than the other. The other supposition, 
which would appear to be more likely, is, that the stones 
together formed a triangular erection, as there are no signs of 
any other stones under the ground close by. 
2. About 150 yards 8.E. of the cove is a circle, originally of 
12 stones, all of which are prostrate, and consist of six in the 
orchard, three in an adjoining field, one in the wall, and there are 
traces of two others buried, which would complete the circle. This 
was called, by Stukeley, the Lunar Circle. There are also some 
broken fragments of stones about the centre of the circle, which 
might have been placed there to form together an altar or 
elevated place. The diameter is 140 feet. 
3. The largest circle, the diameter of which is about 350 feet, 
is situated in an adjoining field, and has the river Chew near the 
eastern side. This is really an imposing group of stones, the 
large level tract of ground and the views of the adjoining country 
serving to improve it. 
