Return we nearer to the temple, and we see 300 paces directly east from it in the same field, a remarkable monument much taken notice of; ’tis what the old _Britons_ call a _Kist vaen_ or stone chest; I mean the _Welsh_, the descendants of those invaders from the continent, _Belgæ_, _Gauls_ and _Cimbrians_, who drove away the aboriginal inhabitants, that made the works we are treating of, still northward. Hence they gave them these names from appearances; as _Rowldrich_, the _wheel or circle of the Druids_; as _Stonehenge_ they call’d _choir gaur_, the _giants’ dance_; as our _saxon_ ancestors call’d it _Stonehenge_, the _hanging-stones_, or _stone-gallows_. Every succession of inhabitants being still further remov’d from a true notion and knowledge of the things. Our _Kist vaen_ is represented in plates VI. and VII. One shews the foreside, the other the backside; so that there needs but little description of it. ’Tis compos’d of six stones, one broader for the back-part, two and two narrower for the sides, set square to the former; and above all, as a cover, a still larger. The opening is full west, to the temple, or _Rowldrich_. It stands on a round _tumulus_, and has a fine prospect south-westward down the valley, where the head of the river _Evenlode_ runs. I persuade myself this was merely monumental, erected over the grave of some great person there buried; most probably the king of the country, when this temple was built. And if there was any use of the building, it might possibly be some way accommodated to some anniversary commemoration of the deceased, by feasts, games, exercises, or the like, as we read in the classic poets, who describe customs ancienter than their own times. It is akin to that _Kist vaen_ in _Cornwall_, which I have drawn in plate XXXVII. [Illustration: TAB. VII. _View of the Kistvaen of Rowldrich from the Southwest._ _Stukeley del._ _Vᵈʳ. Gucht. Sculp._] Near the arch-druid’s barrow, by that call’d the _Kingstone_, is a square plat, oblong, form’d on the turf. Hither, on a certain day of the year, the young men and maidens customarily meet, and make merry with cakes and ale. And this seems to be the remain of the very ancient festival here celebrated in memory of the interr’d, for whom the long barrow and temple were made. This was the sepulture of the arch-druid founder. At _Enston_, a little way off, between _Neat Enston_ and _Fulwell_, by the side of a bank or _tumulus_, stands a great stone, with other smaller. ’Tis half a mile south-west of _Enston_ church. A famous barrow at _Lineham_, by the banks of the _Evenlode_.