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generally considered to be of the same age as the stones in the 
circles at Stanton Drew. Its present size, remarkable as it is, is 
about 7ft. by 7ft. by 2ft., but we are told that cartloads of stone 
have been taken from it, and that its original weight, when it was 
considerably larger than at present, must have been about 30 tons. 
The story attached to it is, that Sir John de Hautville, whose 
effigy and tomb we see in the church at Chew Magna, threw it 
from Maes Knoll; and if we believe that he ever carried out this 
feat or even lifted it at all, we must put it down to the times when 
giants roamed over these parts of Britain. This stone has without 
doubt been in its present position for many hundreds of years, and 
it must truly have been an object of much interest to passers-by. 
There is a small stone used for the step of a stile near the great 
circle which is, as far as I am able to judge, of the same sort of 
Conglomerate as the other stones. It is about 3ft. by 3ft., and 2ft. 
thick, and although I find no mention of it in any of the accounts 
of Stanton Drew which I have seen or in any of the maps, I am of 
opinion that it belongs to these remains, but was removed by the 
owner or occupier of the land, in order that it might be so 
utilized. This is not inconsistent with any plan or theory as to 
the use to which these stones were originally applied, for it is 
evident that there must have been some more stones than at 
present exist, 
There are also two stones in the Lower Tyning on the opposite 
side of the village of Stanton Drew, and Seyer and Dymond in- 
clude them in their maps as belonging to these remains. I do 
not see any account of them in any of the papers that have been 
written on the subject. They appear to be composed of a similar 
Conglomerate to that mentioned before and one of them measures 
5ft. by 3ft. 5in. by 2ft. 3in., and the other 5ft. 9in. (length), 
5ft. 5in. (greatest breadth), by 1ft. Sin. (greatest thickness). Both 
are prostrate on the ground. 
The total number of stones, therefore, which appears to have 
existed or do now are—cove, 3; south east circle, 12 ; large circle, 
