42 LIST Or DOLMENS, MENHIRS, ETC. 



Petit Variouf, 2 v. 27 p." In this same district were three rocks, 

 La Grande Roque, La Petite Roque, and La Roque Massy, and at 

 the bend of the lane leading from the Gouffre to Les Fontenelles 

 stood a cross called " La Croix Forest." It is therefore very pro- 

 bably that the rocks, if they were not menhirs, were looked upon as 

 " Pierres Saintes," or, that those having to cross the district haunted 

 by "Les Varous" required Heavenly assistance before undertaking 

 their journey. i 



Holy %%eils. — There are only two Holy Wells at the Forest; one, 

 " La Fontaine St. Martin," which rises on the cliffs to the westward 

 of the point of "La Corbiere," and the other, which seems to have 

 no particular name, lies midway between Le Gron and La Planque 

 at the point where the three parishes of the Forest, St. Saviour's 

 and St. Andrew's meet. 



Stations. — A number of small flint implements have been discovered 

 from time to time in a hedge to the east of the point of La Corbiere, 

 also along the path and on the surface of some fields farther on 

 towards the Gouffre. 



TGRTSVAL. 



TumulUS, La Varde?- Lieutenant S. Olivier in his "Report on 

 the Present State and Condition of Prehistoric Remains in the 

 Channel Islands, 1870," states that a tumulus or low cairn once 

 existed on the "summit of the high land at La Varde, Pleinmont, 

 which is supposed to have been destroyed when a flagstaff was 

 required to be erected on that point. This is the only record of the 

 existence of prehistoric remains that I have been able to discover in 

 Torteval. 



Les Roques a I'Or. — These rocks were near Rouge Val and we 

 find on the Livre de Perchage du Villain Fief St. Michel, 1833 : 

 Sr. Daniel Dorey, de la Mouranderie, en sa jaonniere des Roques a 

 l'Or, 1 v. 21 p." 



ST. PETER-IN-THE-WQOD. 



St. Peter-in-the-Wood was at one time one of the richest 

 in megalithic monuments of all our parishes. Unfortunately 

 they have all been destroyed with the exception of two, the 

 menhir of " La Pallette es Faies " at Les Paysans and the 

 dolmen, or rather 'allee couverte,' of "Le Creux es Fees" at 

 L'Eree. In former days there were two groups of dolmens, 

 one, in the neighbourhood of Plaisance and Les Marches, 

 and the other round L'Eree. Besides these there were a few 

 isolated dolmens and menhirs scattered over the parish. It 

 is is difficult to determine with absolute certainty the number 

 of dolmens in the Plaisance-Les Marches group, owing to the 

 fact that the district lies on three fiefs, " Les Huit Bouvees," 

 " Lihou " and Becquepee," and that several " Courtils de la 

 Pouquelaye" lie on each of them, which in some instances 

 may refer to land in the same field on different fiefs. The 

 difficulty is further increased by the fact that in many 

 instances the present owners of properties in the neighbour- 

 hood do not know the old names of their fields. However, 

 as far as I can ascertain they were eight in number as fol- 

 lows : — 



