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found in a large mass of ashes in a pit 3 feet deep by 5 feet 

 broad. At 18 inches from the surface a flat stone 15 inches 

 long by about 6 to 7 inches broad was found, polished on one 

 side, on which were placed three round stones with hollows 

 (or cup marks) on each side ; hammer stones and many broken 

 vases of pottery and two flint arrow points were also found in 

 this pit. These all point to an interment by incineration and 

 probably the bronze celt had been ceremonially broken before 

 being placed with the ashes of the dead. 



This completes the list of bronze objects found in Guernsey 

 andSark, with the exception of the bronze Iron Age bracelet 

 found in the dolmen of La Roche qui Sonne, which will be 

 referred to later, but it does not by any means complete the 

 evidence of man's existence in our island during this period. 

 We have far stronger evidence of this in our two statue-menhirs 

 of the Catel and St. Martin's. Some years ago I read to our Society 

 a short paper on the origin of these statue-menhirs, so it is not ne- 

 cessar} T for me to be too lengthy in my remarks on them. I then 

 showed how Dechelette, and other leading French Archaeolo- 

 gists and several leading English Archaeologists, notably Dr. 

 Abercromby, traced the origin of all these statue-menhirs from an 

 iEgean prototype introduced into Spain and Portugal at the end 

 of the Neolithic Age, or in the Copper Age, and how the cult of 

 this goddess of the dead travelled north to the South Eastern 

 departments of France, up the valley of the Rhone to that of the 

 Marne, and down the Seine valley on to England. How this 

 cult reached our island we know not, but we may suppose it 

 came by the old trade route along the western coast of France. 

 Curiously however no true statue-menhirs are found in Brittany, 

 but Dechelette in an article in L' Anthropologic, 1912 (p. 1), 

 entitled "Une Nouvelle Interpretation des Gravures de New 

 Grange et de Gavr'innis, and Mr. G. H. Juquet in L' Anthropo- 

 logic, 1913, (p. 155) on "Les Petroglyph.es de Gavr'innis," are 

 both of the opinion that many of the curious sculptures found 

 on the dolmens of Brittany and on that of New Grange, Ireland, 

 are symbolic of the cult of this same goddess. Dechelette also 

 mentions our two Guernsey statue-menhirs among" les exemples 

 du survivance du meme type" — as the statue-menhirs of South 

 Eastern France, which he attributes to the Copper Age. This 

 view is correct as regards the statue-menhir of St. Martin's, 

 which is undoubtedly of late date, but hardly so for that of the 

 Catel, of which Dechelette had only the very incorrect engraving 

 in Archaeologia to guide him in forming his opinion. After 

 having examined the casts of the most important French statue- 

 menhirs at the Museum of St. Germains and also having seen 

 several of the original statues themselves at the Museum of Nimes, 

 I am of the opinion that ours of the Catel (Plate II., fig. 2) is as 

 rudely formed as any of those of France, and i^ is pro- 



