1872.] The Dolmen-Mounds of Brittany. 5 
village of Locmariaquer, close to the sea-shore, and not far 
from the Pte. de Kerpenhir, at the entrance to the Gulf of 
the Morbihan. On the French naval charts it bears the 
name of ‘‘ Butte de César,” but the only name by which it is 
known to the native peasantry is Manné-er-h’vock (Montagne 
de la fée). According to the French account, it is a long 
barrow, measuring over a hundred yards in length by 60 
in breadth, whilst it has a height of 33 feet. Its longer 
axis is what would be termed orientated by those who see 
orientation in all these remains, although it is within two 
degrees of the S.E. and N.W. points of the compass. 
Mr. Lukis considers this tumulus to have been originally 
round, and that its elongated appearance at present is 
owing to its sides having been removed in the course of 
agricultural operations. At its base on the N.E. side are 
two fallen menhirs of considerable size, whilst some smaller 
stone, not far from the present base in the opposite direc- 
tion, may perhaps be taken to indicate the remains of a 
pervistalith which once surrounded the grave-mound. 
In September, 1863, M. Lefebvre, the Préfet of the Morbi- 
han, and M. R. Galles, caused this barrow to be explored; a 
party of soldiers under their dire¢tion soon sank a 
large crater about the middle of the mound, and it was 
found that it was a galgal built up in the usual way, of 
rough stones piled one on another, and not dissimilar to 
the analogous mounds at Tumiac and Mount St. Michel. 
Not far from the summit they found in the course of clear- 
ance some Roman coins and débris of Roman vases ; deeper 
they found beads of enamel, jasper, and agate; until in the 
very centre they arrived at a sepulchral chamber 12 feet 
long, 8 feet broad, and 5 feet high. It was not a megalithic 
dolmen, but consisted of three roofing-slabs supported by 
dry walling, and, according to Mr. Lukis,* who groups the 
dolmens according to the construction of their roofs, may be 
termed a cezled in contradistinction to the vaulted sepulchre. 
Outside the entrance to this rude cell were found the three 
fragments of a stone tablet with curious incised archaic 
sculpturings upon them. These appear to belong to an 
altogether different type of pattern to the elaborate orna- 
mentation of Gavr’ Inis, and more resemble the ruder 
engravings found on the slabs of Manné-Lud and on the large 
* «On the Various Forms of Monuments commonly called Dolmens in 
Brittany, pointing out a Progress in their Architectural Construction, with an 
Attempt to Reduce them to Chronological Order.” By the Rev. W.C. Luxis, 
M.A., F.S.A.—‘* Transactions of International Congress of Prehistoric Arche- 
ology.” Third Session. 
