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CARNAC , a See also:village of See also:north-western See also:France, in the See also:department of See also:Morbihan and See also:arrondissement of See also:Lorient, 9 M. S.S.W. of See also:Auray by road. Pop. (1906) 667. Carnac has a handsome See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church in the See also:Renaissance See also:style of See also:Brittany, but it owes its celebrity to the See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone monuments in its vicinity, which are among the most extensive and interesting of their See also:kind (see STONE MONUMENTS). The most remarkable consist of See also:long avenues of menhirs or See also:standing stones; but there is also a profusion of other erections, such as dolmens and barrows, throughout the whole See also:district. About See also:half a mile to the north-See also:west of the village is the Menec See also:system, which consists of eleven lines, See also:numbers 874 menhirs, and extends a distance of 3376 ft. The terminal circle, whose longest See also:diameter is 300 ft., is somewhat difficult to make out, as it is broken by the houses and gardens of a little See also:hamlet. To the See also:east-north-east there is another system at Kermario (See also:Place of the Dead), which consists of 855 stones, many of them of See also:great size—some, for example, 18 It. in height —arranged in ten lines and extending about 4000 ft. in length. Still further in the same direction is a third system at Kerlescan (Place of Burning), composed of 262 stones, which are distributed into thirteen lines, terminated by an irregular circle, and altogether extend over a distance of r000 ft. or more. These three systems seem once to have formed a continuous See also:series; the menhirs, many of which have been broken up for road-mending and other purposes, have diminished in number by some See also:thou-sands in See also:modern times. The See also:alignment of Kermario points to the dolmen of Kercado (Place of St Cado), where there is also a See also:barrow, explored in 1863; and to the See also:south-east of Menec stands the great See also:tumulus of Mont St See also:Michel, which See also:measures 377 ft. in length, and has a height of 65 ft. The tumulus, which is crowned with a See also:chapel, was excavated by Rene Galles in 1862; and the contents of the sepulchral chamber, which include several See also:jade and fibrolite axes, are preserved in the museum at See also:Vannes. About a mile east of the village is a small piece of moorland called the Bossenno, from the bocenieu or mounds with which it is covered; and here, in 1874, the explorations of
See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James Miln, a Scottish See also:antiquary, brought to See also:light the remains of a Gallo-See also:Roman See also:town. The tradition of Carnac is that there was once a See also:convent of the See also:Templars or Red See also:Cross Knights on the spot; but this, it seems, is not supported by See also:history. Similar traces were also discovered at Mane See also:Bras, a height about 3 M. to the east. The rocks of which these various monuments are composed is the See also:ordinary See also:granite of the district, and most of them See also:present a See also:strange See also:appearance from their coating of See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:lichens. Carnac has an interesting museum of antiquities.
See W. C. Lukis, See also:Guide to the See also:Principal Chambered Barrows and other Prehistoric Monuments in the Islands of the Morbihan, &c. (See also:Ripon, 1875) ; Rene Galles, Fouilles du Mont See also:Saint Michel en Carnac (Vannes, 1864); A. See also:Fouquet, See also:Des monuments celtiques et des ruines romaines dans le Morbihan (Vannes, 1853) ; James Miln, Archaeological Researches at Carnac in Brittany : Kermario (See also:Edinburgh, 1881); and Excavations at Carnac: The Bossenno and the Mont St Michel (Edinburgh, 1877).
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