. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . -half of these have been overthrown and are lying on theground. Nearly 10 per cent, should be added for the menhirs known tohave been destroyed in modern or historic times. Without doubt thegaps now existing were once filled. This would double, at least, thenumber. These monuments have served as stone quarries for theneighborhood, and doubtless the great castles and churches of the earlyages were built therefrom. There is on the menhirs no mark of tool or quarrying, yet I thinkthey were quarried. They are so much weathere
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . -half of these have been overthrown and are lying on theground. Nearly 10 per cent, should be added for the menhirs known tohave been destroyed in modern or historic times. Without doubt thegaps now existing were once filled. This would double, at least, thenumber. These monuments have served as stone quarries for theneighborhood, and doubtless the great castles and churches of the earlyages were built therefrom. There is on the menhirs no mark of tool or quarrying, yet I thinkthey were quarried. They are so much weathered that all marks areworn away. Look at the weathering on the top of the menhir of Pen-marck (PI. c. Fig. 2). ISTo traces of a quarry have been discovered,though the granite of which the menhirs are formed is the local rock,coming always and many times quite to the surface. The menhirs haveevidently been jilaiited. In most cases they stood on the surface with- * Plate c, Fig. 2. + Plate c, Fig. 1. t Platte c. Fig. 3. Report of National Museum, 1 888.—Wilson. Plate rv - / >N ■^ /■ - I -^ - / -^ -^ -\ / —-~^^ ^P ^^ ^ sj —-^ , _^ V ^ - >- ^^SST^I tr-^S- T^r^-i rfSr^ ^^-^c-^r-ri^-^ ^9fe^^^-£:4:^ ■^--Iv^r-iCL!; .■-■.,--:=.X~- ^■=* . ....« =^^^-:r- _— -Jtm M/^i:^ /s^/ ^// L^O-^tll o i- — i:>/* ^^■/-/yz-^^^-ayriZ^tL-^
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