STONE REMAINS OF BRITTANY. 103. 
formation ends abruptly in a large dolmen, similar to those of 
Stonehenge. 
This singular arrangement is continued again to the south- 
west, where the 10 rows again appear at Menec, terminating in 
front of a round enclosure. The stones of the third group are 
in some cases 18 feet in height. 
Excavations at the bases of the remains have disclosed :— 
1. Stone hammers, adzes, whetstones, sling stones, hand 
projectiles in granite quartz, and schist. 
2. Flint arrow-heads and flint chips in abundance. 
3. Dice or marbles in granite. 
4. Fragments of iron weapons and utensils—iron nails and 
adzes. 
Horse bells in bronze and horse teeth. 
Bricks. 
. Fragments of Celtic and Gallo Roman pottery. 
. Roofing tiles. 
9. Mortars and whorls in stone. 
All lying in the brown earth—in many cases above a scattered 
layer of charcoal or ashes. 
From the majority of the remains being those of imple- 
ments of war—mostly Celtic—it is obvious that between the 
lines there lay a long stretch of defensive works erected by the 
Celts at a period anterior to the Roman invasion, while the 
bronze and iron remains and the fragments of Roman pottery 
point to the Romans on their arrival having occupied some of 
these, and in the more advantageous positions had constructed 
other works of greater solidity. 
Several of the Menhirs were used as buttresses to the 
Roman camps, and there would be little doubt that many of 
them were broken up to strengthen the outer wall. 
The presence in the same place of Celtic and Roman 
remains points to the conclusion that the inhabitants of the 
country, when forced by some invasion in the troublous times 
succeeding the fall of the empire, had there found a refuge for 
themselves and their animals. ; 
It had at one time been supposed that the Menhirs had been 
brought from a distance, but this contention is destroyed by the 
fact of the grain of the Menhirs being that of the granite of the 
district. Others, which are of a pear-like shape, are sometimes. 
