1921.]. 



LIST OP DOLMENS, MENHIRS, ETC. 45 



de James Wilson chef en sa maison appelee la Neuve Maison du 

 Longfrie, Rachel Brouard, de la Magdelaine, holding " le courtil 

 de la Rue, lequel courtil fait partie de son courtil appele La Pou- 

 quelaye, 28 p." The dolmen stood at the junction of three "bouvees " 

 of this Fief which all met in Miss Brouard's field. (49.) 



Le Mont Varoufi — A furze brake of this name was situated close 

 to the above-mentioned " courtil de la Pouquelaye." It is another 

 instance of the association of Le Varouf, with a dolmen. It was 

 situated on La Bouvee de Pierre Tostevin, fils Pierre, de la Croix, 

 and in the above-mentioned Livre de Perchage du Fief Suart, 1898, 

 we find : James Le Page, usufruitier de Pheritage de Nancy Falla, 

 sa femme, en sa vallee ou jaonniere du Mont Varouf, 1 v. 2 p." 



La Roque Pendante.— Livre de Perchage du Fief St. Michel, 

 1896, cc Nicolas Lenfestey, des Hamelins, en sa jaonniere de la Roque 

 Pendante." This rock was near Les Arquets. 



Les Roques ailX Caux.— Near Les Sarreries on Fief St. 

 Michel. In the Livre de Perchage of 1896 several fields called C{ Le 

 Courtil des Roques aux Caux " which were near La Roque du Val 

 and were bordered by La Rue des Sarreries and La Rue des Paas. 



Les Blanches Roques-— These rocks were situated near Le 

 Catillon and from their name were in all probability a megalithic 

 monument. In the Extente du fieu de Lihou, 1503, we find : " Pierres 

 Le Mesurier, junior, en la Croutte des Blanches Roques par devers 

 le nort du douvre, 59 p." (50.) 



The Abbesses Feet. — This is the modern name given to< a stone 

 bearing the imprint of two human feet, said by geologists to be 

 natural hollows, situated at Le Bourget near Le Catillon. A very 

 modern legend states that they were the imprints of the feet of the 

 Abbesses of Lihou and St. Brioc, and that the stone marks the 

 boundary of their respective Fiefs. It is hardly necessary to say 

 that no Abbesses ever existed in Guernsey. Lihou was a priory be- 

 longing to the monks of Mont St. Michel, and St. Brioc was only a 

 small chapel on Fief de Beuval belonging to the de Cheneys, 

 Seieneurs of Fief du Comte. Another legend states that fairy gold 

 lies buried beneath it and tells of how a man dug around the stone 

 a whole morning and was just on the point of dislodging it when 

 twelve o'clock struck and he went home to his dinner. .Alas ! on his 

 return he found the stone was again deeply buried in the soil as if 

 it had never been touched. (1) (51.) 



La Roque Crespel. — This rock stood in a field near Coudre, on the 

 Fief des Huit Bouvees. In the Livre de Perchage, 1896, we find : 

 ft Nicolas Bourgaise du Coudre . . .. en son courtil de la Roque 

 Crespel ioignant a son menage et jardin, 1 v. 29 p." It was probably 

 a megalith as there is no outcrop of rock in the field. (52.) 



La Long'ue Pierre de la Pomare. — The exact situation of 

 this menhir is now unknown, but it is mentioned in cc Lettres sous 

 Sceau " of the 16th iVoril, 1532, whereby, " Collenette Renouf fille 

 de Collas de Saint Pierre-dn-Bois bailie a John le Mesurier, fils 

 Pierres, un camo de terre sur le fief de la Pomare par devers le voest 

 de la Longue Piere de la Pomare. (53.) 



La longue Roque, Les Paysans, also known as "La 

 Lonerue Pierre" and cc La Palette es Fees." This is the largest 

 existing menhir in Cuernsev, and it stands in the centre of a field 

 to the south of the house of Les Paysans. It is first mentioned in 

 ct Lettres" of 20th April, 1487, bv which cc Nicolas de Lisle, fils 

 Olivier, de Saint Pierre-du-Bois. bailie a Pierre Le Mesurier, fils 

 Pierree* de la dite paroisse une pieche de terre a St. Pierre-du-Bois 

 seante au territoire des Eis a Test de la Longue Pierre . . . au bort 



- (1) Folk Lore, p. 151, 153, 151. 



