54 LIST OF t>OLM£tfS, MENHIUS, &TC. 



who is the authority for the existence of this dolmen, gives the fol- 

 lowing extract from Livre de Perchage du Fief St. Michel, au 

 Castel, 1624(1) : " Abraham Collenette en sa maison, Jardin, Haut- 

 gard, Portiers, et en son courtil de Dehusez au haut de la Rue es 

 0013." (84.) 



Les DehusetSi — Two or more dolmens which gave their name to a 

 number of fields on the estate of Les Dehusets, now called "Wood- 

 lands," and in its neighbourhood. These fields lay on the Fiefs of 

 " Le Comte," " Le Roy" and " Le Groignet." We find in the 

 Extente du Fief du Comte, 1583 : " Bouvee des Vesiers. John Tiault 

 en sa butiere jouxte es courtils es dits Rousseaulx appelle le 

 Dehuset." Perchage Fief Le Roy, 1833 : "Matthieu Tostevin nls 

 Matthieu des Dehuzets en sa maison hautgard jardin et portier et en 

 son courtil des Dehuzets le tout joignant ensemble, 1 v. 12 p.," and 

 in Perchage du Fief du Groignet, 1915 : "Deuxieme Bouvee. James 

 Gautier de Woodlands en son pre du Pommier des Dehuzees qui fut 

 a Frederick Charles Carey Ecuj^er, 2 v. 17 p.," etc. According to 

 a paper on Guernsey place names, by Mr. T. W. Carey, (2) two of the 

 fields on the estate of Woodlands were respectively named " Le 

 Grand Tusees " and " Le Petit Tusees." These names rather sug- 

 gest the existence of two dolmens on this property. (85-86.) 

 According to an old legend Les Dehusets was the site first 

 chosen for the erection of the Castel Church, but every night the 

 fairies, cr goblins, carried away all that had been built by day and 

 deposited it on the spot where the church now stands. (3) This legend 

 has a close r semblance to one recorded by M. A. de la B order ie in 

 his "Life of Saint Maudez," where we are told that when the Saint 

 and his monks were building their monastery on the island of Guelt 

 Enes, a demon called Le Teuz, or Le Tuthe, came each night and 

 destroyed all that the monks had built by day. (4) These legends 

 have their origin no doubt in some forgotten conflicts between the 

 heathen idolators and their Christian Evangelists who had wished 

 to build a church on the site of a Sanctuary of their gods. It is 

 interesting to note that Le Teuz, the demon of the Breton legend, 

 was akin to Les Dehusets who gave their name to the locality of the 

 Guernsey legend. 



La Roquelin RoQiie* — This rock was situated somewhere near Le 

 Preel at the back of Les Touillets. It was destroyed many years ago, 

 and it is uncertain whether it was a megalith or a natural rock ; 

 but as " La Croix au Beir " stood close to it, it was evidently " une 

 Pierre Sainte." 



La Roque Beaucamp.-In the Perchage du Fief Le Roy, 1833, 

 is the following entry : " Michel Le Poidevin du Hornet en sa piece 

 des meilles a l'est . . . de la Roque Beaucamp." 



Les Plats PiedS.— Near Le Clos au Comte. Perchage du Fief Le 

 Roy, 1833 : " Thomas Le Prevost, des Plats Pieds, en sa maison et 

 jardin, et en sa jaonniere des Clos au Comte, 6 v. 9 p." Item en son 

 courtil des Grantez et joignant le Fief au Breton la rue entre deux, 

 3 v. 10 p." A stone with pediform hollows on it, similar to those 

 at Le Catillon at St. Peter-in-the-Wood probably existed there and 

 was the origin of the name. 



Statue-Menhir. — In the churchyard of the Castel Church under 

 a tree to the North of the Western porch is the statue-menhir which 

 was discovered during the restoration of the church, in 1878, lying 

 with its foot pointing to the East, buried beneath the pavement at 



(1) Metivier. Dictionnaire Franco-Normand, p. 170. 



(2) Clarke's Guernsey Magazine, October, 1894. 



(3) Folk Lore, p. 220-221. 



(4) Bulletin, Societe d'Emulation des Cdtes du Nord. T. 28 (1890) p. 235. 



