506 Rude Stone Antiquities of Brittany. By Miss Russell. 



receive the votive offerings left by passers-by beside the tombs of 

 local Mahommedan saints ; while the French dolmen now appears 

 to be, in most cases, the upper part of a comparatively large 

 chamber, and a totally different thing. The one engraved is 

 that in the village of Crucuno ; there is another as completely 

 uncovered, but a little sunken, near the Grotte des Fees. 



Fig. 1. — Dolmen at Crucuno. 



My companion, who had been struck on a former occasion 

 with the resemblance of the dolmens to the Picts' Houses of 

 Aberdeenshire (which are undoubtedly dwellings — there is one 

 at least which has a drain and a chimney) struck out an idea, 

 which is at least worth consideration, regarding the rows of 

 standing stones, some of enormous size, near Carnac and else- 

 where. The lines are not at all straight, and the sizes and 

 intervals of the stones are quite irregular ; and they do not seem 

 to have any particular reference to the points of the compass. 



On looking at a map which marks them, however, the great 

 lines certainly do seem to stand across the low-lying peninsulas 

 into which the country near Carnac is cut by arms of the sea ; 

 and from their position ought to be the remains of old ramparts, 

 from which the smaller stones and earth have long since been 

 removed. It has been said, without much reason, that the 

 stones cannot have been there when Csesar was on this coast, as 

 he does not mention them ; but there is this to be said for that 

 opinion, that if they were there, he very possibly did not see 



