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Bossenos.” An Englishman named Miln lived seven years at Carnac 
investigating the antiquities and left a Museum of his discoveries, stone 
implements, kelts, rough and polished, urns containing burnt bones, 
and an entire skeleton found in a Kistvaen on the island of Thinic 
near Quiberon. There are here also many remains of the Roman 
occupation, one peculiarly interesting being the collection of a Roman 
Archeologist consisting of curios, beads, stone implements, &c. 
Inscriptions have been found in six out of the fifty-six Dolmens of 
his neighbourhood, but there is no clue to their interpretation. 
Locmariaquer is about 8$ miles from Auray, and is a small port on 
the sea of Morbihan which is a deep bay of the Atlantic, andis said to 
contain as many islands as there are days in the year. Dolmens and 
tumuli are numerous around this place. Half-a-mile distant there is a 
Dolmen called “ Mané Lud” with a corridor five feet high and eight 
paces long with a terminal chamber covered by a single slab twenty 
feet long. This Dolmen has a figure of a long straight sword with a 
cross hilt carved on the floor slab, and several other ornamentations 
supposed to be writing. It isin the flank of a very large barrow, 
which has been removed, so as to expose the stones. 
About Ioo yards from the last is “ Dol yr Groh,” which consists of 
one enormous slab partly resting on the ground and partly supported 
by one thin perpendicular stone, but it has no corridor. 
The gigantic Menhir called “ Men er H’roeck” or the Fairy Stone 
lies prostrate eighty yards to the South, seventy-seven feet long, 
sixteen and a half feet in diameter at the thickest part and ten to 
thirteen feet in thickness. It is perfectly smooth in surface and oval 
in section, and broken in four pieces, it is supposed by lightning. 
The weight is estimated at two hundred tons, and the fractures are as 
clean as if cut by asaw. The nearest Dolmen to this stone is “The 
Table of the Merchants” which is an enormous slab of granite 
eighteen feet long by twelve broad, supported at the end by an 
elegantly cut slab shaped like an inverted heraldic shield, and 
covered with strange ornamentation. 
Within the village is the gigantic Dolmen called “ Man yr Rutual,” 
the covering slab of which is nearly twenty-eight feet long. It 
contains two chambers, circular in shape. Gavr-Inis one of the 365 
islands of the sea of Morbihan is easily reached from Locmariaquer 
by sailing boat in twenty-five minutes when wind and tide are 
