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natural or artificial is mere conjecture. A Logan or rocking-stone 

 once existed on a natural cro}>pmg out of rock to the eastward of 

 L'Ancresse ; the site still bears the name of La Rocque Balan. 



The cromlech next in importance to that at L'Ancresse, which 

 it rivals in size, is that known by the name of De-hus or Du-Thus 

 (Deuce), by some L'Autel du Grand Sarazin (see Plate II., Fig. 1). 

 On examining this structure we see at a glance the large western 

 chamber, with its huge capstone over 16 feet long, and weigh- 

 ing at least 20 tons. The second capstone, that next to the 

 largest, is broken, and the fracture apparently took place during 

 the period of cromlech-builders or their immediate successors, as 

 the larger half of the stone still remaining in situ has been propped 

 up by an additional stone pillar. In all there are eight capstones, 

 which, with the side blocks supporting them, diminish gradually in 

 bulk towards the eastern entrance, which is blocked up by a large 

 stone, analogous to the L'Ancresse and other cromlechs. The 

 narrow orientated gallery is conspicuous likewise, whilst the main 

 body of the structure is divided into three chambers. The most 

 noticeable features however, after all, in this cromlech, are the four 

 side chambers, two to the north and two to the south ; these are 

 square and polygonal kists, some of which are entered from the 

 eastern gallery, and others distinct, but all adjoining. In the 

 chamber to the north and east were found two skeletons in a 

 kneeling (crouching ?) posture, the flat stone which covers the 

 kist nearly touching their skulls. In the chambers to the south 

 were found several layers of interments, the human bones being 

 disposed in groups crosswise, with the skull on the top, indicating 

 the corpses to have been placed in a sitting posture. There 

 were pavements of flat stones between the layers of interments, 

 which resemble exactly similar instances in the West Grothland 

 tombs.* 



As at L'Ancresse and in the other cromlechs of the Channel 

 Islands, innumerable quantities of limpet shells were deposited for 

 a depth of tw T o feet throughout the structure, and various vases 

 of ancient pottery- ware were disinterred; they are constructed of 

 extremely coarse clay, worked with the hand, imperfectly baked, 

 and some rudely ornamented, together with stone and bone instru- 

 ments, clay beads (locally called Boulettes des Fees), amulets, &c. 



Not far to the north-west of De-hus are vestiges of a kist, 

 the capstones of which were destroyed against the wish, and in the 

 absence, of the proprietor ; this monument curiously enough bears 

 the name of Le Tombeau du Grand Sarazin, a name in conjunction 

 with a similar appellation given to De-hus, significant of the Iberie 

 element, distinctly traceable in the ethnology of the Channel 

 Islanders. A Dolmen, or Trilithon, consisting of a large capstone 



* Nilsson on ' The Stone Age,' p. 149. 



