452 The Amorpholithic Monuments of Brittany. (October, 
cemetery of the same people, or a military trophy in honour 
of Hercules, or a grove of sacred oaks, and these great 
stones placed in lines like rows of trees. Mr. Yates has 
written to prove that these lines of stones are merely the 
result of agricultural operations by the clearance of natural 
boulders off the fields. 
There are not wanting, either, some who will not believe 
that these stones were placed by the hand of man, but think 
that all such remains as these in Brittany, and others, as 
Avebury in Wiltshire, are so many freaks of nature, which, 
by glacial or other means, has transported these masses 
from a distance, and scattered them as moraines or erratic 
boulders. 
One of the most ingenious theories is that suggested by 
Canon Jackson, of Salisbury, in ‘‘ Notes and Queries,” July, 
1869. He supposes the original number of the stones at 
Carnac to have been eleven thousand, and intended as a 
great national memorial of the eleven thousand British 
ladies who were wrecked, and perished on the coast of Ar- 
morica, in the year of our Lord 381. Mr. Lukis disposes 
of this presumed key to the rusty old lock, by showing that 
the number eleven has been assigned to the rows of stones 
at Carnac by careless observation, and that there are three 
groups of stones—one of ten, another of eleven, and one of 
thirteen rows. 
Mr. Lukis, who (with his father, brother, and in company 
with Sir Henry Dryden) has made the amorpholiths of 
Finistére and the Morbihan his especial study for many 
years, has established the principal characteristic feature of 
these systems of avenues and enclosures as follows :—(Vide 
‘* The Stone Avenues of Carnac,” a paper read at the Black- 
more Museum, Salisbury, at the meeting of the Wiltshire 
Archeological Society, 1870, by the Rev. W. C. Lukis, 
M.A., F.S.A., Wath Rectory, Ripon.) 
1. ‘The lines do not lie strictly east and west, but vary 
a little to the north and south.” 
2. ‘The narrow end is invariably eastward, and the head 
or wide part is toward the west end, and on elevated ground.” 
Referring to these features further on, Mr. Lukis remarks— 
**There is a feature which is common both to groups of 
rows of stones and to the sepulchres, which may help to 
throw some light on the subject, viz., their orientation. By 
far the larger number of the sepulchral monuments—those, 
I mean, which are usually termed dolmens—have their 
entrances between the east and south points of the compass, 
v.¢., nearly ninety per cent are so turned, which, it must be 
