ir)2 AXTIQIHTIES OF ALDEllXEY. 



of 17 foot tliG conrsos are continued in liorrino^-l)one work 

 composed of stone and Roman tiles. The ])resent entran(!e 

 was made in 1798. The archway on the west walk now 

 l)locked n]), appears to have been the original entrance. He 

 then mentions certain chapels which existed in ancient times, 

 and concludes with a description of tlie old church of St. 

 Anne. 



There is a further note by Mr. Lukis in Vol. F. of the 

 Arcltmological JovriiaL ])age 226. 



Syvret, in his Ahref/e Hutoriqne^ published by T. Clanger 

 in 1832, says on page 48 : " To the N.E. of the Mare du Roe, 

 in the lot of Sire Andre Langlois, were discovered in April, 

 1832, while trenching the ground, seven stone coffins of 

 different sizes ; in one of these were found a skull and the 

 bones of the limbs." He also gives particulars of Essex 

 Castle and the Nnnnery. I'hese stone coffins are probably 

 the same as No. 7 in Mr. Lnkis's list. 



In April, 1870, Lieutenant S. P. Oliver, R.A., F.R.G.S., 

 then stationed in Guernsey, published a paper on Channel 

 Islands Cromlechs in the Journal of the Ethnological Society. 

 This account of the Megalithic Monuments of Guernsey is 

 very valuable, but as he did not himself examine the Alderney 

 structures he adds little to our knowledge of them. He says : 

 " Five cromlechs and six chambered tumuli were described by 

 Mr. Lukis as existing in 1847 ; now (1870) only part of a 

 cromlech near Fort Tourgis, called the Druid's Altar, and two 

 dilapidated cromlechs near Corblets Bay, remain." On page 

 71 is a valuable table showing the prehistoric remains 

 described by Mr. Lukis and their condition in 1870. 



The same writer, at the same date, contributed another 

 paper on " The Megalithic Structures of the Channel Islands " 

 to the Quarterly Journal of Science. In it, on page 162, he 

 says : " There are now in Mr. Lukis's Museum, Grange 

 Road, Guernsey, 12 celts found in Alderney." 



Neither Jacob nor Berry in their works add to our 

 information on this sul)ject. Berry gives a long learned 

 but fanciful dissertation on the names by which Alderney 

 and certain other islands were known to the ancients. The 

 names sought to be apportioned between these islands are 

 those found in Antonine's Itinerary, a work compiled 

 between A.D. 100 and A.D. 305. 



Ansted in his "Channel Islands" refers to our subject 

 on page 413, where he says: "Alderney was formerly 

 extremely rich in cromlechs," and on page 429 : " There 

 are more Roman remains in Alderney than in either of 



