1921.] 



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the entrance of the chancel, where it had undoubtedly been placed 

 by our Christian Missionaries in the sixth or seventh century, when 

 the first Christian Church was erected on the site of an old heathen 

 sanctuary. This rudely sculptured female figure closely resembles 

 those of the statue-menhirs of the South-Eastern Departments of 

 France, which are thought by Dechelette and other French Archaeolo- 

 gists tO' be of the Early Bronze Age and are invariably associated 

 with dolmens or places of burial, it is therefore very probable that 

 a dolmen was also in close proximity to the statue, and the many 

 large unhewn stones built into the foundations and wall of the west 

 end of the church, which look/ as if they had formed part of a 

 megalithic structure, rather confirm this. A figure of the same 

 goddess has recently been discovered sculptured on the under sur- 

 face of the second capstone of the central chamber of the dolmen 

 of Dehus, Vale. Similar sculptures are found on the props of 

 several dolmens in the Departments of Oise, and Seine et Oise, 

 and also on two slabs of the dolmen of Colorgues, Gard. They are 

 also found sculptured on the sides of the ante-chambers of the arti- 

 ficial grottoes of Croizard, Courjeonnet and others in the valley of 

 Le Petit iviorin, Marne, as well as on slabs in dolmens and graves in 

 Spain and Portugal, from whence the cult of this goddess can be 

 traced to Crete and the ^Egean. (86a.) 



Settlements. — A considerable number of flint implements and 

 flint flakes have been found from time to time scattered over the soil 

 near Albecq, and also near Les Grandes Roques and the little islets 

 off Port Soif. These point to settlements of Neolithic man in the 

 neighbourhood of these two dolmens. 



ST. SAMPSON'S. 



CiStS, Les Yardes.-In 1912 three small cists about 20 inches in 

 length, without cover stones, were discovered on the top of the hill 

 of Les Vardes, near the Signal Post. As they were at the edge of 

 the quarry and in danger of being destroyed they were removed and 

 placed in the path in front of the door of the Lukis Museum. Only 

 a few minute fragments of hand-made pottery and a few flint flakes 

 were found in them. (87.) 



VALE. 



Cists, on Beach at Rousse. — Two cists orientated N. and S., 

 about 4 feet 6 inches long by 2 feet 2 inches broad, each surrounded 

 by a circle of stones, were found on the beach at Rousse to the N.W. 

 of the Tower in 1916.(2) Between the two stone circles was a very 

 small circle paved with flat stone, beneath which was found a frag- 

 ment of the base of a vase of hand-made pottery and a small piece 

 of bone. The TTorthern cist was below high tide level and had lost 

 its cover stone. It was still filled with black earth to within 3 inches 

 of the top of the side stones, but nothing was found in it. The 

 southern cist was intact, but only contained a few fragments of pot- 

 tery and a few flint flakes. (88-89.) 



CiSt 9 near Point Of Les Piacquires. — In the Lukis Museum 

 is a note by Mr. F. C. Lukis recording the discovery of a few stones 

 of a small cist in the centre of a circle of stones near the above- 

 mentioned point. He does not seem to have excavated the site and 

 all traces of the cist were destroyed when the row of cottages along 

 the road to L' Islet were built. (90.) 



Menhir, L'flSlet- — The exact site of this menhir is unknown, but in 

 the Lukis Museum there is a sketch of it made by Mr. Lukis, who 

 represented it as standing in the middle of a furze brake. It was 

 destroyed about the middle of the last century. (91.) 



(1) Dechelette, Manuel, T. L, p. 583-603. T. II., pp 485-492. Cf. Anthropologic, 

 T. XXIII., pp. 29-52. 



(2) See Transactions, Guernsey Society of Natural Science and Research, 1916, 

 p. 328. 



