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holes, and originally with platforms, tier above tier supported on 
pillars bedded in the rock. Y 
The site of the ancient city is so covered with jungle that it is 
difficult to discover its plan, but there seem to have been three water- 
tanks, the sustaining “ bund” being now breached in several places 
so that the present tank is but a fragment of the ancient one, but 
sufficient for the present population of the village. 
APPENDIX 171. 
Abstract of paper on “ The Stones of Carnac, Morbihan 
Brittany.” By Major J. Lu. Evans. 
(Read February toth, 1897.) 
The department of Morbihan in the ancient Duchy of Brittany, a 
bleak granite country, contains an extraordinary number of the 
megalithic alignments dolmens, menhirs, cromlechs and _ tumuli 
called “ Buttes” locally. A “Dolmen” is a sepulchral chamber with 
or without a corridor leading to it. Wellow is an instance of such 
in the neighbourhood of Bath. A “Menhir” is a high standing 
stone like those at Stanton Drew, and when many of these are placed 
in a circle, the Bretons call it a “ Cromlech.” Auray, a small town 
picturesquely situated high above the river Locis a suitable centre for 
visiting several of the finest of these megalithic remains of antiquity, 
and is the site of an immensely popular pilgrimage in July to the 
Church of S. Anne two miles distant, and also the scene of the 
massacre of the Royalist prisoners who surrendered to General Hoche 
after the battle of Quiberon in 1795, on the promise that there lives 
should be spared. A “Chapelle Expiatoire” is erected over the 
sepulture spot of the 950 victims. 
Driving from Auray over an open heather and gorse clad country, 
at a point eight kilometres from the town the Dolmen of Mané Keriaval 
is reached at the point where the Carnac road branches off from the 
main road to Quiberon, vid Plouharnel. This Dolmen contains five 
sepulchral chambers with a corridor, three remaining still perfect. It 
stands in a cup-shaped hollow two feet deep, on a long low tumulus. 
