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favourable. Here is the remarkable tumulus and Dolmen four hundred 
feet in circuit and thirty feet high. The key to the entrance, which 
_ is slightly up the slope, and candles are obtainable at the farmhouse.. 
You enter down some rough steps into a long low passage, fourteen 
paces long and less than five feet high, which terminates in a square 
chamber, nine feet square and six high. The chiselling and jointing 
of the slabs in this Dolmen are perfect and highly finished, fitted 
without cement, resembling ancient work in India, particularly that of 
Asseerghur. The slabs are nearly all of granite, but one seems to be 
of white quartz, all are covered with carved ornamentation, grooved 
lines, circles, axes and fern leaves. Two small serpents are on one 
slab, and several diamond shaped ornaments. 
It is said that a gold ornament, a ring and some beads and calcined 
bones were found in this Dolmen, which are now in the Museum of 
Vannes, the capital of the Department. The Knights Templar 
occupied Gavr-Inis, and doubtless ransacked the place of all its. 
valuables. 
There are very few points of resemblance between these megalithic 
remains of Brittany and our own. There is nothing like Stonehenge 
abroad, and we have no alignments of stones arranged like Ménec. 
Silbury Hill may be compared to Mont S. Michel, but the former is 
far nearer to the Avebury avenues than the latter to Ménec. 
The barrow at Wellow resembles somewhat a smaller Mané 
Keriaval, and Kits’ Coity house in Kent Dol yr Groh, but the latter 
had side casing to the chamber, of which the former is destitute. The 
Cromlechs in Brittany are always at the head of avenues, whereas the 
circle of Menhirs, at Stanton Drew, and elsewhere in England have 
no alignments attached: 
