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longest line consists of eleven stones, arranged east and 
west, and extending over one hundred and seventy yards, 
and a shorter alignment (thirty-three yards in length) at 
right angles, composed of four upright and three prostrate 
blocks. In this last line are the largest stones. The 
upright ones measure 7 feet 6 inches high by 4 feet thick, 
and 4 feet broad; and 6 feet high by 6 feet 6 inches broad, 
and 5 feet 6 inches thick. 
The menhirs of Gatjar or Logatjar are situated on the 
down above the village and port of Camaret. 
They are by far the most conspicuous and clearly defined 
of all the alignments on the promontory, as they are not 
overgrown with furze bushes like the two last-mentioned 
lines. Here, again, we find the characteristic features of 
two short lines about fifty yards long at right angles toa 
longer line two hundred and sixty yards long, lying north- 
east and south-west. The short lines, one of fourteen, the 
other of twelve stones, are on the north-west side of the 
longer line. The conspicuous erect stone is 11 feet 4 inches 
high ; the largest prostrate stone is 13 feet long by 4 broad. 
Near all these alignments are outlying menhirs, which 
M. de Fréminville terms ‘“‘ les menhirs davertissement,” which, 
according to him, announced to the approaching visitor the 
vicinity of a sacred enclosure.* 
An outlying menhir at Gatjar, close by some stones which 
may have formed a dolmen, probably stood at the foot of 
the tumulus which formerly covered the sepulchral chamber. 
One suggestion made as to the disposition of these align- 
ments at Logatjar is that they commemorate a naval victory, 
and that the arrangement of the stones indicates the position 
of the fleets engaged. Admiral Thévenard, true to his pro- 
fession, is the originator of this idea, in his ‘‘ Recueil de 
*‘Mémoires relatifs a la Marine,” and supposes from the 
position of these lines, erected on a lofty promontory over- 
looking the sea, that they represent the order of battle of 
the Armorican fleets. 
There are several other assemblages of stones in this 
neighbourhood. Amongst others there are some, probably 
portions of alignments, near the village of Goulien, in the 
bay of Dinan, and a Carneillou, perhaps a circle, with two 
parallel alignments stretching eastwards from it, near the 
cliffs overlooking the Anse de la Pallue, north of the Vec de 
la Chévre. 
Between the Pte. de St. Hernot and Pte. de Morgatte are 
* Antiquités de Finistére, (2nde parte, p. 20 et seq.), par M. LE CHEV. DE 
FREMINVILLE. Brest. 1835. 
