1921.] 



LIST OF DOLMENS, MENHIRS, ETC. 47 



de Perchage des Trois Bouvees de L'Eree, 1920, on the first Demie 

 Bouvee, " Jean Queripel, du Braye, en sa maison nouvellement batie 

 dans a piece de terre du Champ Vaurouf, 19 p." " Item le dit 

 Queripel en partie de sa cloture du Champ Varouf, 24 p." This is 

 another instance of the name of " Le Varouf " given to lands 

 in the neighbourhood of dolmens. 

 La Roque au Sermon ier (60.) — This stone was situated some- 

 where near La Creux es Faies, in a locality now known as La Vallee 

 au Sermonier. It is first mentioned in the following entry in the 

 " Extente du fief de Lihou, 1503 : " La fille Pierre du Mont a la 

 Roque au Sermanierd) 10£ p." (60.) 



La Longuo Roque de Claire Mare.— This menhir was 



situated somewhere near Claire Mare and it is mentioned in the 

 "Extente du fieu de Lihou," 1503: "Thomas Henry des Bouveys 

 butant sur la Longue Roque de la Cleyremare, 36^ p." (61.) 



La Grosse Roque de la Bete. — The spectre of the Dog of 

 Death haunted the district between the dolmen of Le Creux es Faies 

 and the menhir of Claire Mare, and gave its name to "La Rue de 

 la Bete," which runs from Les Adams to La Roque. In the " Ex- 

 tente du fieu de Lihou," 1503, we find " Les hers Vincent Baptiste 

 a la Grosse Roque de la Bethe, 26J p." 



La Roque des Poullie. — This rocks seems to have been situated 

 near Claire Mare. It is mentioned in the " Extente du fieu de 

 Lihou, 1503. " Phillipe Pain a la Roque des Poullie au vouest des 

 hers Thcmas Guillebert, 15 p." In the same district we find the 

 names of a number of other rocks, namely : — 



La Roque Folie, which seems to have stood niear the Bay of La 

 Roque. In the " Livre de Perchage du Fief de Lihou," 1834, we 

 find : " M. James Paint, des Fontaines, en son petit courtil de la 

 Roque du Galet de Roque Folle, y comprins un camp par dehors, 

 1 v. 10 p." It may have been a megalith, but anyway it was pro- 

 bably " une Pierre Sainte," as in France "La Rocque Folle" is a 

 name often given to menhirs and dolmens. 



La Pierre au Cucu a la Roque stood near Les Adams. We 

 find in the Livre de Perchage du Fief Lihou, 1834: " Dlle. Mar- 

 guerite Paint, fille de Jean, des Sages, en sa cloture de la Pierre au 

 Cucu, a la Roque." 



Les Poitltes de la Roque.— Livre de Perchage du Fief de 

 Lihou, 1834 : M. Jean Le Messurier de la Claire Mare a cause de 

 Dame Marie de Garis, sa femme, en son courtil des Pointes de la 

 Roque, a Pest du Grand Hurel, la route entre deux, 25 p." 



Holy Wells. — As far as I am aware no Holy Wells have been re- 

 corded for St. Peter-in-the-Wood, but there was a fountain situated 

 near Les Roussillons called " La Fontaine au Baiser," a name which 

 rather suggests that some superstition was attached to it in olden 

 davs. It is mentioned in the "Extente du Fief de Lihou," 1503: 

 Collas Renouf es Roussillons, en sa pieche qui butte sur la Fontaine 

 au Basier, 49 p." Another entry close to the above mentions 

 " Pierre de France au courtil de la Croes, & au lone du courtil du 

 Boillon, 50 p." The existence of a cross in close proximity to the 

 fountain rather points to its having been a sacred spring. 



Neolithic Stations.— There are traces of a Neolithic Station at 

 Fort Gray, where there is a midden containing much hand-made 

 oottery in the soil of the N.E. side of the cliff of the little islet. 

 On the island of Lihou have been found a considerable number of 

 flint flakes and implements, also a few have been found round the 

 point of L'Eree. These point to a settlement somewhere in the neigh - 



(1) Sermoneur = discoureur, ou flatteur— Roquefort, Dictionnaire 



