They told me it was full seven yards long, of the same shape as its opposite, tall and narrow. We measur’d this 17 foot above ground, 10 whole cubits; 7 foot broad, two and a half thick. These were the _ansæ_ or wings of this noble ellipsis. That on the back, or in the middle, is much broader, being 15 foot, as many high, 4 thick; but a great piece of one side of it has been broke off by decay of the stone. We cannot conceive any thing bolder, than the idea of those people that entertain’d a design of setting up these stones. The vulgar call them the _devil’s brand-irons_, from their extravagant bulk, and chimney-like form. These coves, as _Maundrel_ says of the _turkish kiblas_, shew the Druids’ aversion to idolatry, expressing the reality of the divine presence there, and at the same time its invisibility; no doubt a most ancient and oriental custom. Of the exterior circle of this northern temple but three stones are now left standing, six more lying on the ground, one whereof in the street by the inn-gate. People yet alive remember several standing in the middle of the street; they were burnt for building, _anno_ 1711. That at the corner of the lane, going to the north gate of the town, not many years since lying on the ground, was us’d as a stall to lay fish on, when they had a kind of market here. The ruin of the rest is noted in the ground-plot, and so of the others. But they told us, that about a dozen years ago both circles were standing, and almost entire. Those in the closes behind the inn, were taken up a year ago; (this was when I first went thither, about 1718,) farmer _Green_ chiefly demolished them to build his house and walls at _Bekamton_. Of the southern temple several stones were destroy’d by farmer _John Fowler_, twelve years ago; he own’d to us that he burnt five of them; but fourteen are still left, whereof about half standing. Some lie along in the pastures, two let into the ground under a barn, others under the houses. One lies above ground under the corner of a house, over-against the inn. One buried under the earth in a little garden. The cavities left by some more are visible, in the places whereof ash-trees are set. All those in the pastures were standing within memory.