1921.] 



LIST OF DOLMENS, MENHIRS, ETC. 57 



1844, who found a considerable number of fragments of thick hand- 

 made pottery which are now in the Lukis Museum. (99.) 



CiStS, La Mare aux Mauves.- They are three in number; the 

 first stands on a little hillock to the N.£. of the above-mentioned 

 dolmen, and all its props and the stones of its surrounding circle 

 still remain, but the capstones have disappeared. A very short dis- 

 tance from it are a few props of the second cist. The sites of both 

 these cists were excavated by Mr. Lukis in 1837 and 1840, but only 

 a few small fragments of pottery were found in them. The third 

 cist, of which only a few stones remain, is situated near the Mar- 

 tello Tower about one hundred yards to the north of the dolmen of 

 " La Mare aux Mauves." It does not seem to have been excavated 

 by Mr. Lukis. (100-101-102.) 



Rocking 1 Stone* — This stone is said to have stood a few hundred 

 yards to the east of the dolmen of "La Mare aux Mauves" near 

 " La Roque Ballen." It is said to have rocked at the slightest touch. 

 An account is given of it by Mr. Joshua Gosselin in his article on 

 " The Discovery of Druidical Remains in the Island of Guernsey'' 

 Archaeologia, V. xviii., p. 251 (1811) in which he states that it was 

 thrown down and destroyed in 1808. (103.) 



La Roque Bafllen. — This rock was evidently connected with the 

 cult of the "Sun) God" and at the beginning of the nineteenth 

 century it was still the custom each St. John's Eve to light a large 

 bonfire on the top of it — " the fire of Beltane " as it was called — and 

 thither the young people of the island nocked to dance around the 

 fire. It is a high natural rock on the top of a small hill. (104.) 



La Chaise au Pretre-— At the foot of La Hougue au Pretre, 

 and at the edge of the beach on the Western side of the bay near the 

 large rocks at the point of Creve Coeur is a large sea-worn rock 

 called " La Chaise au Pretre," having on its seaward side a natural 

 hollow, exactly like a rounded seat or chair, the back being as high 

 as a man's shoulders, with just width enough to sit in comfort. A 

 legend states that a Holy Prior of the Priory of St. Michel du 

 Valle had once a conflict with the devil on this spot, and having 

 vanquished him sank back exhausted against the hard rock, which 

 miraculously oftening at his touch, provided him with a resting 

 place! (105.) 



Le Trepied, La Hougue Catelier.— A dolmen which was 

 situated somewhere near L'Angle du Trepied, and gave its name 

 to the "Trepied" Tower — the Martello Tower which stands on the 

 top of La Hougue Catelier on the eastern side of L'Ancresse Bay 

 opposite Fort Le Marchant.d) The dolmen evidently stood in the 

 centre of the top of the hill, for, as the soil has been gradually 

 thrown back by the quarrymen, a quantity of Neolithic pottery has 

 been exposed. A small vase from this spot and fragments of pottery 

 are now in the Museum of the Guille-Alles Library, and other frag- 

 ments of pottery and flint implements are in the Lukis Museum. (106.) 



Le Gibet des Faies 5 La Hougue Patris, L'Ancresse.— This hill 

 is to the east of La Hougue Catelier, and on it stood at the beginning 

 of the nineteenth century " Le Gibet des Faies," which is described 

 by Sir Edgar MacCulloch as having consisted of three large stone 

 props supporting a large horizontal stone. He conjectures that it 

 may have been a "trilithon."(2) (107.) 



La Fontaine des Faies.— A Holy Well on La Hougue Patris, 

 not far from " Le Gibet des Faies," which was fed by two streams 



(t) For an account of a Vue de Justice by the Royal Court on 9th October, 1883, 

 at. L'Ancresse, concerning L'Angle du Trepied. see Clarke's Guernsey Magazine. 

 December, 1883. 



(2) Folk Lore, p. 128. 



