4 The Dolmen-Mounds of Brittany. [January, 
well as by those who employ paid labourers, to whom, 
therefore, time is of great consequence.”’* 
The French savans have since been more successful in 
finding these smaller relics. The accounts of the explora- 
tions of the various tumuli, published by the society from 
time to time in small pamphlets, are unusually interesting. 
It is indeed enough to make our island archeologists die of 
envy to read M. Galles’s account of the mining and excava- 
tion of the huge tumulus of Mont San Michel, in September, 
1862. There is an almost exciting description of the 
moment when, a shaft having been sunk from the summit, 
the small sepulchral chamber was first broken into, and the 
enthusiastic explorer, placing his lamp within the aperture, 
sees the glistening of the polished celts, jasper and tur- 
quoise beads, &c.; and how, when entering alone into the 
small kist, he hands out to his colleagues, Louis Galles 
(“* gwHoffman ett nommé Vhomme aux dolmens”) and M. 
Lallemand, one by one, these valuable relics, amongst 
other things, eleven jade celts and six-and-twenty small ones 
of fibrolite. 
Unfortunately the members of the society could not 
always be on the spot during the progress of the excavations, 
and consequently many valuable celts and other ornaments 
from this same tumulus are in possession of the neighbour- 
ing farmers and peasantry, who are not unwilling to sell 
them, whilst the proprietors of the small inns at Carnac 
have some handsome specimens, which they keep to exhibit 
to tourist visitors, &c., and of the value of which they have 
rather an exalted opinion. ‘“‘ Helas!’ exclaims M. René 
Galles, ‘‘ Le dirai-je; nos paysans vendent aux Anglais les 
 celtze de leurs péres!” 
It may here be noted, for the information of visitors to this 
locality, that there is a notorious manufacturer of pseudo- 
celts in the village of Carnac. 
The tumulus of Tumiac, on the Arzon promontory, was 
one of the earliest attacked by the Vannes Society, where 
the find was rich and encouraging; similarly, Manné-Lud, at 
Locmariaquer, Le Moustoir, and the barrow in the grounds 
of Baron Walbrook, at Kercado, with others, have been 
opened with varied success; but perhaps the best worth 
recording is the discovery of the dolmen under the large 
mound named MANNE-ER-H’ROEK. 
MANN&-ER-H’ROEK is a conspicuous tumulus outside the 
* On a Remarkable Chambered Long Barrow, at Kerlescant Carnac, 
Brittany, by Rev. W. C. Lukis, p. 6. 
