JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CORNWALL. 



No. X. APEIL. 1869. 



I. — Celtic Remains in Algeria. — By Charles Fox. 



I PUBLISHED some years since, observations on the cromlechs 

 of Algeria, which Avere communicated to me by my late 

 valued friend, Henry Christy, who was the first to investigate the 

 so called Celtic remains in that region. I have recently, with Dr. 

 Boujot, examined some near Guyotville, about fifteen miles west 

 of the city of Algiers. Only a very few of the dolmens (or 

 cromlechs) remain undisturbed. They are on a high plateau, on 

 the border of the Ouadi H' Kalaah, and were once much more 

 numerous. Mons. Berbrugger, a distinguished Archaeologist of 

 Algeria, informed me that several years ago he saw as many as 

 a hundred there, and, about the centre of the group, what 

 looked like an altar with three steps. At that period a thicket of 

 wild shrubs made a close examination more difiicult than it is 

 now, since a colonist has roughly cultivated some patches of the 

 ground ; but he has also removed very many of the sepulchral 

 remains. The few still visible are slabs (without marks of tools) 

 4| to 5 feet in length, resting — in some instances very irregularly 

 — on four rough upright stones, less than 3 feet in height. Here 

 and there, gaps below the cover are occupied by shapeless blocks 

 of stone. The colonist led us to his hut, that we might see some 

 bones which he had ibund a few days before in a dolmen, undis- 

 turbed previously. These were parts of t"hree crania (one of 

 them of a child) in too friable a state to admit of much 



