By the Rev. W. C. Lukia. 149 



not been covered by a mound ? How many Celtic tumuli have 

 disappeared, whose earth has been carted into the" fields to manure 

 the corn ? Do we not see every day the agriculturist digging up 

 the tunjuli of Locmariaquer, and is it not to this practice, alas ! 

 too comraon, that we owe the discovery of the cromlecb of 

 Man^-Lud ?] p. 126. At page 41, he makes the following additional 

 remark : " Si de la baie de Locmariaquer on jette les yeux sur les 

 cotes et sur les iles qui I'entourent, on remarquera certainement 

 que les tumulus ou buttes funeraires sont loin d'etre rares dans 

 cette partie du Morbihan ; car on a autour de soi le Mane-Lud, le 

 Mane-er-H'rouich, le Petit-Mont, la butte de Tumiac, le tumulus 

 de L'lle Longue, et le galgal de Gavr'inis. Quatre de ces six buttes 

 ont ^t^ fouillees, et contiennent des grottes sepulcrales ; le Petit- 

 Mont en contient surement une, et la Montagne de la Fee doit 

 probableraent en couvrir une aussi." [If from the Bay of Loc- 

 mariaquer you cast your eyes along the coasts and upon the sur- 

 rounding islands, you will certainly notice that the tumuli or 

 Bepulchral mounds are far from being uncommon in this part of 

 the Morbihan. For you have around you, the Mane-Lud, the 

 Mane-er-H'rouich, the Petit-Mont, the tumulus of Tumiac, that 

 of L'lle Longue, and the Galgal of Gavr'inis. Four of these six 

 mounds have been excavated, and contain sepulchral chambers ; 

 the Petit- Mont assuredly contains one, and the Montagne de la 

 Fee probably covers another.] 



We learn from an article in the Archaeological Journal, No. 9, 

 on the cromlechs in the Isle of Anglesea, by Mr. Longueville Jones, 

 that the one at Plas Newydd, several in the same neighbourhood, 

 and that at Bodowyr, now denuded, were originally enclosed in 

 earns or heaps of stones or earth. 



Rowland speaks of a tumulus near Plas Newydd in these terms : 

 ■*' Could this mound be excavated we should find in it a sepulchral 

 chamber constructed in the true cromlech fashion." At Brj-n- 

 Celli is a tumulus containing a cromlech. 



Pennant, vol. ii., p. 238, in speaking of cromlechs, sa)'s: "others 

 again are quite hedckcl in the carnedd or heap of stones, of which 

 instances may be produced in Llanfaelog in this Island, in that of 

 Arran, and 1q the County of Meireonedd." 



