60 LIST OF DOLMENS, MENHIRS, ETC. 



nately destroyed by quarrying about the middle of the last century, 

 but two sketches of it, by Mr. F. C. Lukis, taken from different 

 sides, are now in the Lukis Museum. (1) (115a.) 



Demi-Dolmen, La Grosse Hougue.- This is represented by 

 Mr. F. C. Lukis in his sketch, in the Lukis Museum, as consisting 

 of a fairly large capstone with one end resting on the ground and 

 the other upon a single prop deeply embedded in the soii. It may 

 be possible that the structure was not a demi-dolmen at all, but the 

 remains of a ruined dolmen. Neolithic pottery was found near 

 this stone when the site was excavated by Mr. F. C. Lukis. It was 

 destroyed by quarrying about the middle of the last century. (116.) 



La Pierre Pointue« also called La Pointue Roque.-A 



menhir which stood near a cottage on the top of the hill not far from 

 the western gate of Delancey Park. It was destroyed about sixty 

 years ago, but the locality is still called La Pointue Roque. A 

 sketch of it by Mr. F. C. Lukis is in the Lukis Museum. During 

 the ancient triennial procession of La Chevauchee de St. Michel, 

 when the Senechal of the Court of Fief St. Michel, accompanied by 

 all his cfficials, and the Crown Officers, viewed the King's High 

 Roads; the " pions," or footmen of the procession, used to dance 

 round La Pierre Pointue. Miss E. F. Carey in her paper on "La 

 Chevauchee de St. Michel," suggests that the dancing of the 

 " pions " round the menhir was a survival of some heathen cult which 

 had been Christianised by the Abbot of Mont St. Michel. d) (117.) 



Menhir, Les GigrandS.— This menhir stood in the centre of a field 

 at Les Gigands and was destroyed about the middle of the nine- 

 teenth century. A sketch of it by Mr. F. C. Lukis is now in the 

 Lukis Museum. (118.) 



Ruined Dolmen, Delancey Park.— The remains of this 

 ruined dolmen were discovered in 1919 buried beneath the soil on 

 the north-east slope of the Park. All its capstones had disappeared 

 and the props, with one exception, had been thrown down in two 

 lines and buried beneath the ground. This had been probably done 

 when the barracks were built on the top of the hill at the end of the 

 eighteenth century. A few fragments of hand-made pottery, some 

 of great thickness, flint implements and some bones, were found 

 when the site of the dolmen was excavated. These are now in the 

 Lukis Museum. It is thought that the remains of another dolmen 

 are buried beneath the soil to the West of the dolmen. (U9-) 



This completes the information I have been able to 

 gather together on the sites of our dolmens and menhirs, but 

 it is possible that further search in old " Lettres sous 

 Sceau " and also in the " Livres de Perchages " of the Fiefs 

 des Rohais, des Philippes, Vaugrat, and one or two others, 

 to which I have been unable to obtain access, might add a 

 few more to the number. 



In conclusion I have to thank Miss E. F. Carey for all 

 the valuable information she has so kindly given me on 

 Guernsey megaliths, as well as on the Folk Lore connected 



(1) See Oliver. Report on Prehistoric Remains in C. I. Folk Lore, p. 148. 



(2) Transactions, Guernsey Society of Natural Science, 1915, p. 244. 



Note.— Hist, of Guernsey. F. B. Tupper, 2nd Ed., p. 541. " During this year (1873) 

 was erected, by the harbour Committee (of St. Sampson's), on the South- West 

 corner of the Crocq a massive stone 13 feet in height, formerly forming part of a 

 druicdal monument and weighing about eight tons. On the Southern face, in gilt 

 letters, is the inscription : "'Hommage a De Lisle Brock, 1821, Bailiff, 1842, &c, &c. 



