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an Armorican tribe whose territory occupied about the extent 

 of the present department of the " Cotes du Nord." In 1820 a 

 very large hoard of these coins was discovered in Jersey, 

 altogether 982, which passed into the possession of Baron de 

 Donop, who reproduced no less than 760 in his work, Les 

 Medailles Gallo-Gaeliques. Description de la trouvaille de Vile 

 de Jersey (Hanover 1838), giving a description of each separate 

 specimen. Mr. Bernard Roth in his recent book on " Ancient 

 Gaulish Coins, including those of the Channel Islands " (p. 15), 

 writing on the coinage of the Channel Islands as illustrated in 

 Baron de Donop's book, says that : " In spite of this great labour 

 it is possible to distinguish only three definite varieties, which 

 correspond to the three coins attributed to the Coriosolites." In 

 his book, however, Mr. Roth reproduces twenty-one silver and 

 billon coins, of slightly varying types, as belonging to the Channel 

 Islands. All these coins are very rude reproductions of the 

 gold stater of Philip of Macedon, which was issued between 

 359 and 336, B.C. The first imitation by the Gauls, according to 

 Mr. Roth, was probably issued between 300 and 250 B.C., but 

 they continued to be reproduced, with an ever increasing 

 degeneration of the design, down to the conquest of Gaul by 

 Caesar, till they bore but a faint and most bizarre resemblance to 

 their prototype. Ours consist of 5 staters and 2 quarter staters. 



It remains for us to consider what evidence exists of 

 interments of the Bronze and Early Iron Age in Guernsey. 

 First, I think, we can claim as belonging to the Early Bronze Age 

 the cist and tumulus of "Le Creux-des-Fees," which formerly 

 existed in the corner of a field at Les Paysans, St. Peter's-in-the- 

 Wood, at a short distance from the menhir of La Longue Pierre, 

 near a lane leading to La Pomare. We have in the Lukis Museum 

 a water-colour sketch of this cist (Plate VIII.) made by Mr. Lukis 

 shortly before the owner totally destroyed the whole of this 

 ancient monument, just as Mr. Lukis was going to excavate it. 

 In the sketch it is represented as a chamber with walls of dry 

 stone masonry, constructed with large blocks of stone and 

 covered by large flat stones. Mr. Lukis states that the entrance 

 of the chamber was 2 feet 3 inches broad and its length 10 feet 

 6 inches, so it was of considerable size ; but unfortunately he 

 gives no further details. Structures with walls of dry stone 

 masonry point to the Early Bronze Age and not to the Neolithic 

 period, and many of considerable size have been found in 

 Brittany ; hence Le Creux-des-Fees was probably of the Bronze 

 Age. As the Bronze Age progressed and during the Early Iron 

 Age the dead were no longer buried together in large chambers ; 

 but usually separately in small chambers, or cists, covered by 

 tumuli, with sometimes secondary interments in the same 

 tumulus. Of these tumuli we had two still existing in Guernsey 

 until quite recently — La Hougue Hatenai and La Hougue 



