ANTIQUITIES OF ALDERNEY. 153 



the other islands ; coins, pottery and bronze implements 

 have been found." 



Mrs. Lane Clark published in 1851, "The Companion 

 and Guide to Alderney"; in it is a chapter on Antiquities. 

 She gives Mr. Lukis as her authority ; all the matter and 

 the diagrams are taken from his paper. 



Tupper, in his " History " on page 8, quotes the Alderney 

 Guide of 1851 as his authority for stating that bronze 

 implements, &c., have been found in Alderney. On page 12 

 he says that Roman coins, tiles, pottery, &c., have been 

 discovered. 



Miss E. Carey, in her recent book on the " Channel 

 Islands" says about Alderney that "navvies smashed up 

 megaliths;" on page 231 she mentions Celtic and Roman 

 remains, on the authority of Mr. Lukis. 



Sir J. Evans in his Bronze Age includes the Gaudion 

 collection in his list of hoards discovered in this part of 

 Europe, and takes his information entirely from Mr. Lukis's 

 paper. 



Xo discoveries of any importance were made after the 

 Longy plain had been brought into cultivation until 1852-3-4, 

 when in carrying out the Government scheme for a fortified 

 harbour of refuge in Alderney, a railway was constructed 

 to convey stone from the quarries to the harbour-works at 

 the Braye. This railway crossed the northern part of Longy 

 Common, and while laying the line and digging the foundations 

 of the forts, a vast number of graves were destroyed ; it is 

 said, for example, that " At Fort I'Etoc the picks broke 

 pots at almost every blow." The labourers knew nothing 

 of the arch^ological importance of the cists, urns, &c., 

 they were daily scattering ; but the rumour of the discoveries 

 caused Capt. F. Lukis (son of Mr. F. C. Lukis) to repair 

 to Alderney where he recovered a few of the articles 

 disinterred. There is no printed record of the archaeological 

 finds at this period, but urns with ashes of the dead, bronze 

 articles, iron weapons and a silver ring, attest the fact that 

 a great 0])portunity was then lost of enriching a local museum. 



Of late years further valuable information has been 

 obtained on this subject. Baron Von Hiigel, Curator of 

 the University Museum at Cambridge, was in the habit of 

 residing in Alderney for the summer vacation ; and in 1889, 

 he, in company with Dr. F. P. Nichols, and by permission 

 of Mr. Howe, explored a spot in the neighbourhood of Longy 

 Common, N.E. of the Nunnery, and made important disco- 

 veries in what he styles the Longy Refuse-pit. He inserted 



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