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hood. Also on the South Coast on the top of the cliffs to the West of 

 the point of Le Prevote, there is a field, which, when I first discovered 

 it was thickly strewn with flint cores, flint implements and flakes. In 

 all I have picked up over 2,000 at this spot, which points to it having 

 been occupied by man for a considerable time, possibly by the 

 builders of the dolmens in the neighbourhood of Plaisance and Les 

 Marches, which are no great distance off. 

 Meeting: Places of Witches.— In the trial before the Royal 

 Court, in 1617, of CoJlette du Mont, widow of Jean Becquet, for 

 witchcraft, we are told that she confessed that at the instigation of 

 the devil, who appeared in her in the form of a dog, she had gone 

 to a " Sabbat ' of the witches near " Le Chasteau du Rocquaine " 

 (now Fort Gray). As the other recorded meeting places of the witches 

 in Guernsey were usually in the neighbourhood of dolmens it is 

 possible that one may have existed on the little rocky islet on which 

 Fort Gray now stands. 



ST. SAVIOUR'S. 



The remaining megaliths of the L'Eree-Catioroe group 

 are in St. Saviour's parish across " Le Douit de rAngulaire/' 

 which forms the boundary of the parish in the centre of the 

 plain near Claire Mare. 



La Longue Pierre, near Les Fontenelles. — A menhir which is 



mentioned in the " Extente des Onze Bouvees Nord Est," 1534, as 

 standing on "La Bouvee Thomas Blondd fils James," who is 

 described as holding " le courtil de la Longue Pierre, 1 vergee 34 

 perques. Item en son aultre ccurtil de la Longue Pierre nommez les 

 Fontenelles, 1 v. 34 p." (62.) 



Le Trepied« — This dolmen was also situated near Les Fontenelles, 

 on the " Fief des Onze Bouvees Nord Est," as we find in the " Ex- 

 tente " of 1534 on " La Bouvee Collas Blondel," mention of " Collas 

 Blondel sus lez Fontenelles butant sur la Croute, 1 v. 16 p. Item 

 en sen camp du Trepi, 17 p." This Trepied cannot have been the 

 dolmen still called " Le Trepied" which stands on Mont Chinchon, 

 at the end of the point of Le Catioroc, as the latter was called La 

 Pouquelaye in this Extente of 1534. (63.) 



We now come to Le Catioroc, or, as Sir Edgar Mac- 

 Culloch calls it, " Le Castiau-Roc." A name it is suggested 

 possibly derived from the Celtic — " Castel-ar-Roc'h " — the 

 Rock Castle, or from " Castel-er-H'rock — .the Devil's 

 Castle, or the Castle of the Fairy. Sir Edgar MacCulloch 

 writing of what he remembered early in the nineteenth 

 century states that : "As one approaches it one is struck by 

 the vestiges of Cromlechs with their circles and bits of 

 Longues Roques." (1) Among the place names on Le 

 Catioroc mentioned in the old " Livres de Perchage " are 

 the three following which suggest possible megaliths: — 

 Les Portes du Catioroc. — Mentioned on the " Extente des 

 Onze Bouvees Nord Est," 1534, on La Demie Bouvee Collas Le 

 Sage. Its name is rather suggestive of some structure similar to that 

 of " Le Gibet des Fai'es " at L'Ancresse, which Sir Edgar Mac- 

 Culloch describes as having consisted of a long capstone supported 

 by three high stone props. (1) 



(1) Folk Lore, p. 122. 



