1719While I was preparing this press, a noble Belgian, Mr. Nathan. Palmer, being the first to know the antiquities of the country, I received letters; in which he very humanely shared with me the most ancient monuments, and (it seems he used) Roman remains, drawn with his own hand. This monument [Stanton Drew Stone Circles], commonly called [The Wedding], is seven and eight miles westward of Acquis caldis, not far from the military road, which is described in our Map of Belgium. It is made of stone circles, different in number, unequal in diameter, more or less perfect; which are carved in honor Tab. XIV. you may see First, to show their state, as they are now; then I will try to explain the end to which they were constructed.

It is the center of a larger circle. Thirteen stones remain in the Periphery, and only three of them have been erected: but it is probable that the completed Circle, as it once was, had 32 Peripheral Stones, and that they had been separated from each other by 11 rods.

The center of another circle is B, from which to the periphery the radius is 16 rods. There are two interior circles, the innermost of which is completely intact, has cylindrical stones, and if you drop one, they are raised; they are nine feet high, with a circumference of twenty-two feet.

Still others are Stones, not dissimilar to those seen in the circles, but now distant from them; such as these formerly belonged to the circles, but I think that by some chance they were taken from the places of Semoveri, and others to the civil affairs, that is to say, buildings, roads fortifying, and the like.