1921.] 



LIST OF DOLMENS, MENHIKS, ETC. 37 



as can be ascertained the dolmen stood somewhere at the top of 

 Smith Street not far from Forest Lane. (18.) 



La Pierre de L'Hyvreuse.-A menhir which stood on, or near, 

 the site of the Queen's Tower. It is first mentioned in a " Lettres 

 sous Sceau" of 1442, by which John du Bot sells to John Perrin 

 " une pieche de terre par devers le norvouest de la Pierre de 

 rHivreuse." According to our old legends the fairies danced around 

 it each Friday night after their long flight from Ct Le Creux es 

 Faies" near L Eree. We will meet this legend of fairies dancing round 

 menhirs again in the course of our survey, and we will as well have 

 occasion to refer to the dancing round them of the " pions " or foot- 

 men of the procession of " La Chevauchee de St. Michel " during 

 the triennial beating of the bounds. The seventh century chronicler 

 of the Life of St. Sampson also refers to this custom and relates : 

 how, the baint as he journeyed from his monastery in Wales to the 

 coast, in order to embark on his mission to evangelise Brittany, 

 encountered a band of British heathen dancing "after the manner 

 of bacchantes round a high stone (simulacrum abominable) standing 

 on a hill," and how he stopped to preach to them the " True God." 

 "I have been on that hill," says the hagiographer, "and I have 

 adored the cross which the Saint had engraven on the high stone 

 (in lapi de stante) with an instrument of iron with his own hand, 

 with my own hand have I touched that cross. "CD Therefore follow- 

 ing the example of St. Sampson and the advice of Pope Gregory The 

 Great to St. Augustine "to Christianise the old pagan sanctuaries," 

 our forefathers erected a cross, " La Croix de l'Hyvreuse," near the 

 menhir, and in later times built a small chapel, Notre Dame de 

 Lorette, close to it, and situated somewhere about the site of the Town 

 Arsenal, or of the row of houses on the south side of Candie Road. (2) 



(19.) 



La Pouquelaye de SMormanville.— This dolmen stood in a 

 field called "Le Courtil de la Pouquelaye" on the South side of 

 " La Rue Maupas." This field which now belongs to Messrs. Wheadon 

 is mentioned in all the " Extentes du fief Le Roy" from 1573 to 1793. 



(20.) 



La Longue Roque de la Vrangue. — This menhir stood in 

 " Le Courtil de la Longue Roque," to the East of " La Mare au 

 Chanteur" and to the South of the road opposite the Vrangue Manor. 



(21.) 



This completes the list of megalithic monuments in the 

 parish of St. Peter-Port. There were, however, a few other 

 rocks, " Les Roches de Havilland " at Les Croutes Havil- 

 lands, "Les Roquettes," "La Roche au Cheval," "La 

 Roche des Chevres " and " La Roque a l'Ane, near Fontaine 

 Fleurie and Fort George, of which we know too little to be 

 able to determine if any of them were megaliths or not. 



Around the Town we also find a circle of Holy Wells. 

 "La Fontaine Fleurie" near Havelet, "La Fontaine Saint 

 Pierre" at the bottom of Fountain Street, near le Pont 

 d' Orson (a large stone which spanned the mill stream to the 

 west of the Church of St. Peter-Port), "La Fontaine Notre 



(1) H. d'Arbois de Jublainville, Le Culte des Menhirs dans le Monde Celtique. 

 Vita, S. Samsonis, e, 38 ; Mabillon, Acta Sanctorum ordinis S. Benedicti. T. i, 

 pp. L77. 



(2) La Pierre de l'Hyvreuse was destroyed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and a 

 windmill erected on its site. 



