Now the avenue passes along a lane to the left hand of the _Caln_ road, by a stone house call’d _Goldsmiths_-farm, and so thro’ farmer _Griffin_’s yard, thro’ one barn that stands across the avenue, then by another which stands on its direction. Two stones and their opposites still lie in the foundation; immediately after this, it enters the open plow’d fields; the _Caln_ road running all this while north of it. If we look back and observe the bearings of _Abury_ steeple, and other objects, a discerning eye finds, that it makes a great sweep or curve northwards. The avenue entring the open corn-fields, runs for some time by the hedge, on the right hand. When it has cross’d the way leading from _South-street_, we discern here and there the remains of it, in its road to _Longstone_ cove. Farmer _Griffin_ broke near 20 of the stones of this part of the avenue. [Illustration: TAB. XVIII. _Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall sculp._ _The Entrance of_ Kennet avenue _into_ Abury _14. May 1724._] This _Longstone_ cove, vulgarly call’d long stones, is properly a cove, as the old _Britons_ call’d ’em, compos’d of three stones, like that most magnificent one we described, in the center of the northern temple at _Abury_; behind the inn. They are set upon the ark of a circle, regarding each other with an obtuse angle. This is set on the north side of the avenue; one of the stones of that side makes the back of the cove. This is the only particularity in which this avenue differs from the former. I take it to be chiefly a judicious affectation of variety, and serv’d as a _sacellum_ or _proseucha_ to the neighbourhood on ordinary days of devotion, _viz._ the sabbath-days. For if the Druids came hither in _Abraham_’s time, and were disciples of his, as it appears to me; we cannot doubt of their observance of the sabbath. It stands on the midway of the length of the avenue, being the fiftieth stone. This opens to the south-east, as that of the northern temple to the north-east. ’Tis placed upon an eminence, the highest ground which the avenue passes over: these are call’d _Longstone_-fields from it. You have a good prospect hence, seeing _Abury_ toward which the ground descends to the brook: _Overton-hill_, _Silbury_, _Bekamton_; and a fine country all around. Many stones by the way are just buried under the surface of the earth. Many lie in the balks and meres, and many fragments are remov’d, to make boundaries for the fields; but more whole ones have been burnt to build withal, within every body’s memory. One stone still remains standing, near _Longstone_ cove. _Longstone_ cove, because standing in the open fields, between the _Caln_ road and that to the _Bath_, is more talk’d of by the people of this country, than the larger, and more numerous in _Abury_ town. Dr. _Musgrave_ mentions it in his _Belgium Britannicum_, page 44. and in his map thereof.