3-034-620 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Group of stones at Kermario, 1871. Ancient site in Brittany. View of '...South Kermario, the central group of the Carnac lines...From St. Michael's Mount the view looking westward seems to be closed by another tumulus, 200 ft. high; but the lines of stones are really continued beyond the last-mentioned tumulus, ending at the shore of a small inlet of the sea which communicates with the Bay of Quiberon. It is difficult to pronounce any judgment on the plan of this vast monument, which has been compared with those in Egypt, though Karnak on the Nile has probably nothing to do with the name of Carnac in Brittany. The tumulus or mound, for instance, has been fancied to symbolise the great egg of the mundane creation, hatched by the divine serpent whose coils enfold it in a mighty embrace. The whole subject is very obscure'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.