58 LIST OF DOLMENS, MENHIRS, ETC. 



and never failed for water even in the driest summers. It has been 

 destroyed by quarrying. 



Le Fied du Bceuf.-— A natural hollow like the imprint of the hoof 

 of an ox on a large sea worn boulder, on the sea side of the path 

 alcng the Common from Fort Le Mar chant to Fort Doyle. Accord- 

 ing to an old legend it is the imprint of the devil's hoot, who, being 

 worsted in an encounter with some Saint at this spot, sprang from 

 the stone over the sea and alighted on one of the rocks of Les 

 Brayes, about a mile from the shore, which bears a similar mark 

 like the imprint of a hoof. CD (108.) 



Weather ^torte, La iVIoye.— This stone, which has all the 

 appearance of a small menhir, is only two feet high and across its 

 top run two natural fissures which iorm a cross. It stands in a 

 large field called La Houmiere, opposite "La Moye " on the right 

 hand side of the road coming from the Eastern gate of L'Ancresse 

 Common. It was looked upon as tw une Pierre Sainte," and in the 

 hay season the grass around it was always left uncut until all the 

 hay in the neighbourhood was carted. If by any chance this pre- 

 caution was omitted then invariably the moment the grass round 

 the stone was cut stormy weather and rain set in.(l) (109.) 



Le Tombeau du Grand Sarrazin.— This small dolmen for- 

 merly stood in the centre of a furze brake on the estate of Paradis 

 belonging to Mr. Collas. It was partially destroyed by some work- 

 men in 1810, but its site was excavated by Mr. F. C. Lukis in 1838, 

 who found some human remains under a fragment of the capstone 

 and about twenty vases, all with rounded bases, scattered around 

 the few stones that remained. These objects are now in the Lukis 

 Museum. The remaining stones of the dolmen were destroyed about 

 the middle of the last century. (HO.) 



L'Autel du Dehus, or La Pierre du Dehus. — Both these 

 names are given to this great Allee Couverte, the second largest in 

 Guernsey, which stands on the top of the hill opposite La Hougue 

 de Noirmont. Mr. F. C. Lukis states that it was called " l'Autel du 

 Tus " and "l'Autel du Grand Sarrazin," and he invariably styled 

 it the "Cromlech of Du Tus," but in the Livres de Perchage du Fief 

 St. Michel au Clos du Valle, it is always called Dehus, and this 

 name figures on the Rent Rolls of the Vale Priory in 1307. The 

 allee couverte" consists of a central chamber and gallery with four 

 secondary chambers, two on each side of the gallery. It stands, still 

 nearly completely covered with its tumulus, in the centre of a circle 

 of stones sixty feet in diameter. The second capstone of the central 

 chamber is sculptured with a rude representation of a human figure 

 (a face, two hands and part of the outline of both arms), also with 

 a crescent shaped symbol, and beneath it a band or girdle on which 

 rests a ring or disc. It is evident that the figure represents the 

 mother goddess. Similar figures are found sculptured on the props 

 of dolmens in France as has been already stated. The dolmen was 

 excavated by Mr. F. C. Lukis on different occasions between 1838 

 and 1847, and the numerous vases and other objects he found in it 

 are in the Lukis Museum. (HI.) 



La Longue Roque, La Couture.— A menhir which formerly 

 stood in a field near La Hougue des Loriers, between the lands of the 

 Vale Rectory and the dolmen of La Roque qui Sonne. It is men- 

 tioned in "Lettres sous Sceau," 12th February, 1494/5, whereby 

 " John Capelle fils Collas " sells to " John Cousin fils Raulin, trois 

 pieches de terre don lungne siet en la couture au vouest de la 

 Longue Roque." Not far from this menhir was " Le Courtil des 

 Varioufs," and also a calvary which gives its name to " Le Courtil 

 dit Les Croix de Bois." (112.) 



(1) Folk Lore, p. 153. 



(2) Folk Lore, p, 126, Note. 



