with dots between, a piece of the same having parallel lines and dots, also a piece having circles with a dot in the centre of each. Along the west wall a great quantity of ashes and fine charcoal, an opaque grey flint chip, a primitive quern having a diameter of 18 inches and being 6 inches thick, a granite hammer, and two shards of coarse brown pottery.

Within the enclosure quantities of ashes and fine charcoal, an opaque grey flint chip, two grey flint flakes, an opaque grey flint scraper, two arrow-heads of grey flint, twelve black and grey flint chips, a quantity of small shards of pottery very coarse, some of which was ornamented with dots.

Outside, at the foot of the menhir K, a piece of a saw of grey silex, a flint scraper, a piece of grey flint, a part of a flint flake, thirty-two grey flint chips, a piece of a broken celt of diorite, half of a ring of schist, and a quantity of shards of coarse brown pottery.

Both of these enclosures are of the same form, their dimensions being nearly the same; both have been constructed on rising ground, each having its outlying menhirs, which latter were placed on the outside of the enclosure where the beehives for cremation are situated. The materials employed, as also the system of construction, are precisely similar in each case, the boundary walls being of coarse undressed stones put together without any kind of cement, and having also built up in them a series of small menhirs, some of which had remained upright. Each contained beehive structures for cremation, which had all been constructed on the same principle. There can be but little doubt of their having been used for that purpose, from the fact of their being reddened, and become friable from the effects of great heat, as also from the circumstance that they contained simply black unctuous earth. It would further appear as if the cremation had been perfect, as not a particle of calcined bone was found in either of the enclosures.

The similarity of the objects found, together with the outlying stones, might probably carry these structures back to the period of the dolmens; indeed, the remains of the calcined bones may have been collected, placed in urns, and deposited in the dolmens. No rule appears to have prevailed as to the orientation of the enclosures, and, with very few exceptions, the shards which were found were of coarse paste. This, taken in conjunction with the ornamentation and the silex, would seem to point to a rather remote period.

It is to be regretted that the shards of pottery were so small and so mixed up that it was next to impossible to put them together, or to set up a vase or urn; it would also appear as if the system of depositing urns in cists had not existed here as at

Nignol and Coët-a-touse; a diligent search was made for them on the outside of the enclosures, but unsuccessfully. It may be that bodies were here cremated, and that the urns were deposited elsewhere, possibly in the chambers of the dolmens, perhaps at the Mont St. Michel, at Carnac, the contents of which could not by any possibility have been cremated in that chamber.

The paste, form, and ornamentation of the pottery found much resembled that which is generally met with in the Breton dolmens, but there is an exception to the rule, namely, that of the shard which had been coated with plumbago, and similarly to the urns which were found in the circles and cists at the Nignol and Coët-a-touse. The absence of Roman bricks, tegulæ, and pottery, as also of metals, is remarkable.

The stone hammers, flint scrapers, flint knives and chips, together with the pieces of celts, which were found, resembled those which have usually been met with in the proximity of the dolmens of the Morbihan, as also of the circles of Nignol and Coët-a-touse, but they are probably anterior to the latter, especially as no metal, or even traces of it, were found either within or near to the enclosures.

There exists a third enclosure of the same kind at about one mile distant from those which have been described; it is situate on a rising ground near the dolmen of Klud-er-rier ("roosting place of fowls"). The outline of its boundary wall can be easily traced. The late Mr. James Miln had made arrangements with its proprietor, and was to have examined it as soon as the growing crop of gorse had been cut, but this plan was arrested through his very unexpected and almost sudden death.

Explanation of Plate VIII.

Fig. 1-Plan of quadrilateral structure at Mané-Pochat-en-Uieu, near Carnac.

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2. Ditto at Mané-Ty-ec, near Carnac.

In both plans the shaded stones are upright menhirs; the others not shaded have fallen.

DISCUSSION.

Mr. A. L. LEWIS said that the paper communicated by Admiral Tremlett was of great interest, the monuments described in it appearing to be quite unique. Regarding the rude stone monuments of Brittany, he might say that, in addition to his personal knowledge of them, he had read a quantity of French publications about them (equal in bulk to about four volumes of the Journal of the Institute) which Admiral Tremlett had kindly lent him,

and from which he had extracted particulars of the exploration of 107 dolmens and other tombs. Only 15 of these contained bronze or iron, and some of these cases were rather doubtful-a fact which tended to show their great antiquity; but even if iron had been found in every one of them, it would not have shown that they were, as some said, of post-Roman origin, since Cæsar found the people of the country perfectly well acquainted with the use of that metal. He also thought that the immense number of dolmens, many of them of enormous size, which had existed in the neighbourhood of the Morbihan could not possibly have been erected in the troubled years following the departure of the Romans. The archeologists of the Morbihan appeared to be unanimous in attributing their rude stone monuments to a preRoman population, and Mr. Miln had conclusively proved the pre-Roman date of some of them.

A LIST OF SOME DOLMENS AND TUMULI IN BRITTANY, THE INVESTIGATION OF WHICH IS RECORDED IN THE Bull. Soc. Arch. du Morbihan, AND IN THE Bull. Soc. Polymathique du Morbihan, AND OF THE ARTICLES FOUND IN THEM. (EXTRACTED BY A. L. LEWIS, FROM COPIES ADMIRAL TREMLETT.)

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1 These particulars are given in the List which immediately follows this paper.