36 list of dolmens, menhirs, etc. 



a mile square there was a group of no less than eight dolmens 

 and four menhirs connected with them, but of all these 

 megaliths not a trace remains. 



According to our old Folk Lore Tales the south-eastern 

 and north-western approaches of the group were guarded by 

 the phantom Dog of Death, " Tchico," as he was called in 

 our old legends, (1) who as " La Bete de la Ville au Roi," a 

 headless dog, haunted the old road, called by the ominous 

 name of "La Rue de 1' Ombre de la Mort," which was a 

 narrow lane destroyed at the beginning of the last century, 

 which passed up the south side of the Pierre Percee valley, 

 turned at right angles, and went through the centre of the 

 field in front of my house of Le Mont Durant, joining 

 another lane coming from Mount Row near the large tree in 

 the centre of the field, and there turning west and joining the 

 Ville au Roi Road. The approach to the north-western side 

 of the group was guarded by "La Bete de la Devise des 

 Rohais," the "Dog of Death " which haunted the lower part 

 of the Rohais Road. In our survey of Guernsey dolmens 

 we will frequently meet with this legend in the vicinity of 

 dolmens or groups of dolmens. 



Le$ Courti IS du Varouf. — To the west of La Jaonniere des 

 Trepieds, St. Andrew's, we find two fields in the Perchage du Fief 

 Le Roi, 1910, both called " Le Courtil Variouf," one forming part of 

 the Ruettes Farm, and the other formerly belonging to Messrs. Drake 

 and Wetherall. Fields named Le Varou. Varouf or Variouf, are fre- 

 quently found in the neighbourhood of dolmens and menhirs in 

 Guernsey. (15a.) 



Les Roquettes.— "Lettre sous Sceau," 1442 : cc John du Bot bailie 

 a John Perrin . . . une pieche de terre nomme la terre des Ro- 

 quettes seante divers le sue de la capelle Syt. Jaques en la paroisse 

 de Saint Pierre-Port." — The name Les Roquettes was given to the 

 whole district from the ChaDel of St. Jacques, which stood at the 

 S.E. corner of the estate of Monplaisir, to "Les Roquettes," the 

 property of the late General Mainguy. The close proximity of the 

 chapel to these stones suggests the possibility that they were either 

 small menhirs, a dolmen or a stone circle, and thus accounted sacred 

 by early man. (16.) 



La Petite Pouquelaye, La Petite L'Hyvreuse.— This 

 was a dolmen situated somewhere on, or near the estate of La Petite 

 PHyvreuse, of which the old house is now Mr. C. W. Perchard's 

 Stables. It is mentioned in a cc Lettres sous Sceau" of 20th Seot.. 

 1729, as lying to the north of cc Le Courtil du Port." (17.) 



La Pouquelaye a Sa Grangre Godel.— This dolmen is men- 

 tioned in "Lettres sous Sceau," 11th August, 1476, wherebv cc Guille 

 Estur fils Perrotin de la ville de St. Pierre-Port, por le present 

 demeurant en la cytey de Extre* au royaulme d'engleterre . . . bailie 

 a Collyn Guille de St. Pierre-Port un petit courtil en la dite paroisse 

 a la Grange Godel au dessus de la Pouqueleie." La Grange Godel ' 

 is mentioned in several other <c Lettres " about this date, and as far 

 (1) Tchico is curiously comoounderl of two Celtic word« both meani^er 4 dog.' 



Chi. the name for doo: in the Cotes du Nord, and Co, or Coh, the older Gaulish word 



for dog, still nsed in the Morbihan.. 

 * i.e, t Exeter. 



