1872.] The Dolmen-Mounds of Brittany. 3 
It is to local museums that we must look for collections 
of the stone implements, ornaments, pottery, &c., found in 
the ancient sepulchres of the surrounding country; and in 
this respect the Bretons are not behindhand. The Museum 
formed by the Societé Polymathique of the Department of 
the Morbihan at Vannes is well worth a visit from every 
student in prehistoric archeology, and, although small, the 
collection of neolithic implements and ornaments is well 
assorted with special regard to the localities in which they 
were found. By inspection of the catalogue which enume- 
rates and classifies these “‘ objets de Page de la Pierre Polie,” it 
appears that the museum contains 198 good specimens of 
stone celts, besides fragments, as well as flint knives, 
scrapers and flakes, hammer-heads, gorgets, torques, pen- 
dants, &c., allfrom the surrounding department. The other 
principal collections of relics of the stone period, from 
Brittany, are at St. Germain’s, at Plouharnel (Madame Le 
Bail’s), Mr. Lukis’s Museum in Guernsey, and Mr. William 
Lukis’s collection in Yorkshire. Our public collections in 
England are remarkable for their deficiency in Brittany 
examples, there being but one in the British Museum, and 
the Christy Collection, which is rich in celts from the 
Auvergne, has nevertheless none from Brittany. In the 
Blackmore Museum at Salisbury are a few specimens given 
by Mr. Barnwell, but this model museum possesses an 
instructive series of casts from those in the Vannes 
Museum. 
In respect to pottery, the Morbihan collection is poor, 
whilst there is but a scanty show of flint-knives, flakes, 
and arrow-points; with regard to the arrow-points, Mr. 
Lukis says,— 
*‘Tt is a circumstance which should be mentioned with 
reference to the flint arrow-points, that the members of the 
Polymathique Society of the Morbihan, after fifteen years’ 
labours, have succeeded in finding two only, and this cir- 
cumstance has led them to remark that these objects are 
very rare in the department; but I entertain a different 
opinion, and conclude that they have not searched carefully, 
for in one chambered barrow I have tound wine, in another 
three, and in a third one; in each case after a previous dis- 
turbance of their contents. They are small objects and 
easily escape detection, more particularly when explorers 
neglect to use a sieve. The truth is that explorations of 
these buildings are generally carried on too rapidly, especi- 
ally by those whose place of residence is at a distance, as 
