Les Fouaillages & the
Megalithic Monuments of Guernsey

Text by Ian Kinnes MA, PhD, FSA, & J. A. Grant MA : foreword by Glyn Daniel, Emeritus Professor of  Archaeology, University of Cambridge : 1983 : 64 pages :  29 b/w photographs by W. F. Tipping, 11 line drawings.

Published in association with The Ampersand Press

ISBN 0 946346 01 1

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Cover illustration - Les Fouaillages, L'Ancresse, Guernsey

This guide is one of the first fruits of a successful exercise in co-operation by many individuals and organisations: the total excavation of a remarkable Guernsey site, and the new light it has shed on the local and European past.

Acknowledgments: (1st paragraph)

The Guernsey megaliths - and Guernsey prehistory in general - are a microcosm of North European prehistory. On the underside of one of the capstones of Le Déhus is the representation of a figure which can be compared in a general way with the stone figures in the churchyards of Câtel and St Martin. All three are obviously part of the iconography of the ancient religion of pre-Christian Europe. They demand a visit - as, indeed, do all the main  megalithic tombs in the island, and the admirable new museum in Candie Gardens. This authoritative and well-written guide is an excellent starting point for those who want to see the remains of Guernsey's ancient past, and to understand its place in prehistoric Europe.

Glyn Daniel: Foreword (last paragraph)