Fig. 140 represents, according to Sir J. Lubbock's work, a Danish chambered tumulus.
Fig. 140.—A Danish Tumulus, or chambered Sepulchre.
Before bringing to a close this description of megalithic monuments, we must say a few words as to menhirs and cromlechs.
Menhirs (fig. 141) are enormous blocks of rough stone which were set up in the ground in the vicinity of tombs. They were set up either separately, as represented in fig. 141, or in rows, that is, in a circle or in an avenue.
Fig. 141.—Usual shape of a Menhir.
There is in Brittany an extremely curious array of stones of this kind; this is the range of menhirs of Carnac (fig. 142). The stones are here distributed in eleven parallel lines, over a distance of 1100 yards, and, running along the sea-shore of Brittany, present a very strange appearance.