518 Rude Stone Antiquities of Brittany. By Miss Russell. 



force of the country might do "by brute strength and 

 prizing," as somebody says of the monoliths still erected in one 

 district of India at least. There are thirty and forty foot 

 menhirs still standing in Brittany, to the northward. The 

 "Key of the Sea," at St Samson, near the tidal river Eance, 

 below Dinan, is thirty feet above ground. 



Fig, 2 — The Key of the Sea. 



I am not certain if Canute's edict against the worship of 

 natural objects in England, mentions stones or not. 



There is or was a menhir some miles from Pont L' Abbe, 

 sculptured, in a sort of a panel, with a rude figure with a spear, 

 which is called the Gaulish Mars ; as far as I can make out, it is 

 the only case of the kind known. 



We did not see the rude statue called the "Venus of Quimpily, 

 nor should perhaps have fully known how curious a monument 

 it seems to be. My idea was, from the descriptions, that it was 



