1921.] 



LIST OF DOLMENS, MENHIRS, ETC. 51 



to be seen in the soil of the northern face of the cliff of the Catioroc 

 Point, and fragments of hand-made pottery are frequently found in 

 the soil all round the point. These suggest the existence of a settle- 

 ment of Neolithic man somewhere in the neighbourhood, possibly on 

 the plain which is now covered by sea. Another settlement must have 

 existed in the vicinity of Fort Richmond and Le Crocq, as along the 

 edge of the coast round the point many flint implements and frag- 

 ments of hand-made pottery have been found ; also a midden con- 

 taining pottery and hand-made bricks. Some of the fields round the 

 menhir are strewn with flint implements and chippings. 



OASTEL. 



La Roque OW Be COCO Chante.- This rock stood on the highest 

 point of the range of hills overlooking Vazon Bay. Whether it was 

 a menhir or a natural rock is uncertain. Round it the fairies were 

 said to dance each Friday night, and according to Mr. G. Metivier, 

 in his youth it was the custom to perambulate the rock stamping the 

 feet.(l) The soil then gave out a reverberation like the knell of a dis- 

 tant bell, which imagination pictured as issuing from a subterranean 

 cavern filled with fairy gold. It was also from this hill that, accord- 

 ing to legend, came the voice bidding Thomas Dumaresq to tell his 

 fairy serving man, " le Petit Colin," of the death of his father, " le 

 Grand Colin," the king of the fairies. (2) (74.) 



Le Trepied Cles Grantais.— A dolmen that stood not far from 

 Le Moulin des Grantais overlooking the King's Mills. It is mentioned 

 in the " Extente du Fief des Grantais," 1656 : " Huitieme Bouvee. 

 Les hers John Le Feyvre en leur terre du Trepy, 1 v. 26 p." (75.) 



La Roqtie Oohier. — This rock stood near Les Forgettes on Fief 

 Suart (Perchage 1898, La Bouvee du Groin, Fief des Gohiers). Not 

 far from this rock was another called La Roque a l'Eau, which is 

 described in the Perchage of Fief Le Roy, Castel, 1833, as " buttant 

 au nord et sur la rue qui mene aux Chorhns." In all probability 

 these were both natural rocks. 



La Longue Pierre. — A menhir which stood on the top of the hill 

 behind St. George, either on the site of the present White Tower, or 

 between it and the estate of La Masse near the Parish Schools. It was 

 at the junction of three Fiefs, Les Grangiers, L'Escachier and Les 

 Cherfs. In the " Extente of Fief des Grangiers," 1547, is the fol- 

 lowing entry : ct Pierres Estur fils Henry a la Longue Pierre, la 

 dite pierre estante dedans, 1 v." (76.) 



Le Trepied des Cherf S B — A dolmen not far from La Longue 



Pierre, on the same Fief des Grangiers. In the Extente of this Fief 



for 1457 is mentioned cc Johan Estur du Moulin au trepy des Cherfs, 



. 6 p." (77.) 



La Roque au Comte. — This rock, possibly a menhir, was also 

 on the " Fief des Cherfs " on La Hougue au Comte, and in the 

 Extente of 1548 we find : " Les hers John Lestournel a la Hougue au 

 Compte la Rocque seante dedens, 1 v. 4 p." 



La Roque au Roy was also on the same Fief des Cherfs and is 

 mentioned in the Extente of 1583. 



Les Blanches Roques, near St. Matthew's Church, is on the 

 Fief des Coboes. The name is so often given to megaliths in Jersey 

 and France that in all probability some megalithic monument stood 

 on this property in former days. Near Les Blanches Roques is a 

 property called Les Rocquiers. (78.) 



(1) Metivier. Diet. Franco-Norm., p. 102. 



(2) Folk Lore, p. 213-4, 



